Surface-wave launchers for beam steering and application to planar leaky-wave antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 355-363

  Podilchak, Symon K ^a,b   Freundorfer, Al P ^a,b   Antar, Yahia M M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Leaky wave (LW); Leaky wave antenna (LWA); Surface wave (SW); Surface wave launcher (SWL)

Indexed keywords

BEAM SCANNING; BEAM-STEERING; DIELECTRIC SLABS; DIRECTIVE BEAM PATTERNS; FAR FIELDS; FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; LEAKY-WAVE (LW); LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA (LWA); LINEAR ARRAYS; METALLIC GRATINGS; NON-UNIFORM; POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; RELATIVE PHASE; SINGLE FREQUENCIES; SURFACE-WAVE (SW); SURFACE-WAVE LAUNCHER (SWL); TWO-ELEMENT ARRAYS;

ARRAY PROCESSING; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC LOAD DISTRIBUTION; LAUNCHING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WAVE POWER;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 65249150697     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2011248     Document Type: Article

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