Reconfigurable MEMS antennas

Proceedings of the 2008 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 147-154

  Haridas, Nakul ^a   Erdogan, Ahmet T ^a   Arslan, Tughrul ^a   Walton, Anthony J ^a,b   Smith, Stewart ^a,b   Stevenson, Tom ^a,b   Dunare, Camelia ^a,b   Gundlach, Alan ^a,b   Terry, Jon ^a,b   Argyrakis, Petros ^a,b   Tierney, Kevin ^a,b   Ross, Alan ^a,b   O'Hara, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Microelectronics Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c MEMSSTAR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LOW POWERS; MEMS ANTENNAS; MICRO-ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE; PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNAS; RE SEARCH GROUP; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REAL TIME; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS; SPACE-DIVERSITY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 51949084671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AHS.2008.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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