An active high-impedance surface for low-profile tunable and steerable antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 676-680

  Costa, Filippo ^a   Monorchio, Agostino ^a   Talarico, Salvatore ^a   Valeri, Fabio Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Microwave Communications   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); Frequency selective surface (FSS); Steerable antenna; Tunable AMC

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; ACTIVE ELEMENTS; ANTENNA MODEL; ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; BEAM SCANNING; BIASING VOLTAGES; BOW TIE; DIELECTRIC SLABS; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SURFACES; HIGH IMPEDANCE SURFACE; LOW PROFILE; METALLIC ELEMENTS; OPERATING BANDS; RADIATING ELEMENTS; RADIATION PRINCIPLE; THROUGH-VIAS; TUNABLE AMC; VARACTOR DIODES; WIDE-BAND; WORKING FREQUENCY;

ANTENNAS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; VARACTORS;

STEERABLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 70350670211     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2006070     Document Type: Article

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