Planar leaky-wave antenna designs offering conical-sector beam scanning and broadside radiation using surface-wave launchers

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 155-158

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

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grounded dielectric slab (gds); Leaky wave (lw); Leaky wave antenna (lwa); Partially reflecting surface (prs); Surface wave (sw); Surface wave launcher (swl)

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC SLABS; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; LEAKY-WAVE; PARTIALLY REFLECTING SURFACES; SURFACE-WAVE (SW); SURFACE-WAVE LAUNCHER (SWL);

DESIGN; LAUNCHING; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 65249174517     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.919326     Document Type: Article

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