Two port reconfigurable crlh leaky wave antenna with improved impedance matching and beam tuning

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2046-2049

  Piazza, Daniele ^a   Michele, D'Amico ^b   Dandekar, Kapil R ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive communications; Metamaterials; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Reconfigurable Antennas; Smart antennas

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; ANGULAR RANGE; ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA STRUCTURES; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; CANDIDATE SOLUTION; COMMUNICATION DEVICE; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH ISOLATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; INFINITE NUMBERS; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; LEFT HANDED; MICROSTRIPES; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO); RADIATION PATTERNS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS; SPACE OCCUPATION; TWO BEAMS; TWO-ELEMENT ARRAY; UNIT CELLS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FEEDBACK CONTROL; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); METAMATERIALS; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING; SMART ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349871445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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