Investigation on the transmission beam-steering capabilities of tunable impedance surfaces

European Microwave Week 2009, EuMW 2009: Science, Progress and Quality at Radiofrequencies, Conference Proceedings - 39th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1033-1036

  Russo, I ^a   Gaetano, D ^a   Boccia, L ^a   Amendola, G ^a   Di Massa, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Frequency selective surfaces; Varactors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE IMPEDANCE; BEAM-STEERING; ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; IMPEDANCE SURFACE; PASSIVE STRUCTURES; RECTANGULAR SLOTS; TRANSMISSION BEAMS; UNIT CELLS; VARACTOR DIODES;

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES;

VARACTORS;

EID: 72949115733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2009.5296371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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