Uniform ferrite-loaded open waveguide structure with CRLH response and its application to a novel backfire-to-endfire leaky-wave antenna

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 784-795

  Kodera, Toshiro ^a   Caloz, Christophe ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Composite right left handed (CRLH); Ferrite loaded waveguides; Leaky wave antenna; Nonreciprocal wave propagation; Scanning antennas

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED (CRLH); FERRITE LOADED WAVEGUIDES; LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA; NONRECIPROCAL WAVE PROPAGATION;

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; FERRITE; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING ANTENNAS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

SCANNING;

EID: 64849112669     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2015070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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