Realization and characterization of a 77 GHz reconfigurable liquid crystal reflectarray

Proceedings - 2009 13th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics and the Canadian Radio Sciences Meeting, ANTEM/URSI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Moessinger, Alexander ^a   Dieter, Sabine ^b   Menzel, Wolfgang ^b   Mueller, Stefan ^a   Jakoby, Rolf ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC LIQUIDS; BEAM COLLIMATION; BIASING VOLTAGES; DC CONTROL; MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAY; PATTERN MEASUREMENTS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURATION CAPABILITY; REFLECTARRAY; TUNABLILITY;

LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFLECTION;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 66849089819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ANTEMURSI.2009.4805092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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