Bandwidth improvement in large reflectarrays by using true-time delay

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 8 II, 2008, Pages 2496-2503

  Carrasco, Eduardo ^a   Encinar, José A ^a   Barba, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Broadband antennas; Reflectarrays; Time delay arrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DELAY;

APERTURE-COUPLED; BANDWIDTH IMPROVEMENTS; BROADBAND ANTENNAS; COLLIMATED BEAMS; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; PHASE DELAYS; PHASE DISTRIBUTIONS; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADIATION PATTERNS; REFLECTARRAY; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; TIME-DELAY ARRAYS; TRUE-TIME DELAY;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 49549115072     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.927559     Document Type: Article

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