Impact of mutual coupling in leaky wave enhanced imaging arrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1201-1206

  Llombart, Nuria ^a   Neto, Andrea ^a   Gerini, Giampiero ^a   Bonnedal, Magnus ^b   De Maagt, Peter ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b SAAB AB   (Sweden)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic bandgap (EMB) materials; Leaky wave (LW) antennas; Leaky waves (LWs); Reflector antenna feeds

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGING ARRAYS; LEAKY WAVE (LW) ANTENNAS; MUTUAL COUPLING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 42549145465     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.919223     Document Type: Article

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