Broadband printed compound air-fed array antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 187-190

  Wu, Zhi Hang ^a   Zhang, Wen Xun ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air fed array antenna; Broadband printed antenna; Fabry Perot resonator (FPR) antenna; Frequency selective surface (FSS); High impedance surface (HIS)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FREQUENCY; ARRAY ANTENNAS; FABRY-PEROT RESONATORS; HIGH-IMPEDANCE SURFACES; PRINTED ANTENNA;

BANDWIDTH; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; RESONATORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77950844379     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2045470     Document Type: Article

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