On the selection of the number of bits to control a dynamic digital MEMS reflectarray

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 183-186

  Wu, Billy ^a   Sutinjo, Adrian ^a   Potter, Mike E ^a   Okoniewski, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Reconfigurable antennas; Reflectarrays

Indexed keywords

BEAM POINTING; FABRICATED DEVICE; FEED HORNS; LOW LOSS; MEMS CAPACITIVE SWITCH; MEMS VARIABLE CAPACITORS; PHASE-SHIFTING; PHASED ARRAYS; PLANE WAVE ILLUMINATION; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REFLECTARRAYS; SCAN ANGLE;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; BIOINFORMATICS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 69649088317     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.920908     Document Type: Article

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