Lightwave antenna with a small aperture manufactured using MEMS processing technology

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 11 I, 2007, Pages 3046-3051

  Munemasa, Yasushi ^a,b   Mita, Makoto ^b   Takano, Tadashi ^b   Sano, Masatoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna measurement; Aperture antenna gain and radiation pattern; Lens antenna; Lightwave antenna using micro electromechanical system (MEMS) processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); LENSES; MEMS;

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; APERTURE ANTENNA GAIN; LENS ANTENNA; LIGHTWAVE ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 36849013035     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.908578     Document Type: Article

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