Recent advances on millimetre wave reconfigurable reflectarrays

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2527-2531

  Sorrentino, R ^a   Gatti, R Vincenti ^a   Marcaccioli, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; CIRCUIT MODELS; EFFICIENT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; EUROPEAN NETWORKS; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; KA BAND; KU-BAND; MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; MILLIMETRE WAVES; MM-WAVE; OPTIMIZED DESIGNS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; THEORETICAL BASIS; WORK IN PROGRESS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349873501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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