94 GHz dual-reflector antenna with reflectarray subreflector

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3043-3050

  Hu, Wenfei ^a   Arrebola, Manuel ^b   Cahill, Robert ^a   Encinar, José A ^c   Fusco, Vincent ^a   Gamble, Harold S ^a   Alvarez, Yuri ^b   Las Heras, Fernando ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beam scanning arrays; Dual reflector antennas; Liquid crystals; Millimeter wave antennas; Reconfigurable antennas; Reflectarrays

Indexed keywords

BEAM-SCANNING ARRAY; DUAL REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REFLECTARRAYS;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OXIDE MINERALS; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; QUARTZ; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 76149141783     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2029275     Document Type: Article

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