Frequency selective surfaces for extended bandwidth backing reflector functions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-50

  Pasian, Marco ^a   Monni, Stefania ^b   Neto, Andrea ^b   Ettorre, Mauro ^c   Gerini, Giampiero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Connected array; Frequency selective surface; Green's function; Wide scan antenna; Wideband antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; REFLECTION; SCANNING ANTENNAS; SLOT ANTENNAS;

CONNECTED ARRAYS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE (FSS); FRONT TO BACK RATIO; HARDWARE DEMONSTRATOR; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; SCAN ANTENNAS; WIDE ANGLE SCANNING; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 73949123685     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2036185     Document Type: Article

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