Equivalent electrical circuit for designing mems-controlled reflectarray phase shifters

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 100, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-12

  Tahir, F A ^a   Aubert, H ^a   Girard, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; PHASE SHIFTERS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DESIGN PARAMETERS; EQUIVALENT ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS; LINEAR DISTRIBUTION; RADIO FREQUENCY-MEMS; RECONFIGURABLE; REFLECTARRAYS; RF-MEMS SWITCHES;

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

EID: 76749122021     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER09112506     Document Type: Article

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