Contributions to the modeling and design of reconfigurable reflecting cells embedding discrete control elements

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1621-1628

  Perruisseau Carrier, Julien ^a   Bongard, Frédéric ^b   Golubovic Niciforovic, Ruzica ^b   Torres Sanchez, Roberto ^b   Mosig, Juan R ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diodes; Microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Periodic; Reconfigurable; Reflectarray; Reflecting cell; Tunability

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTING CELL; TUNABILITIES;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELLS; DIODES; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS;

EID: 77953619586     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2048249     Document Type: Article

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