Pencil beam patterns obtained by planar arrays of parasitic dipoles fed by only one active element

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 103, Issue , 2010, Pages 419-431

  Alvarez Folgueiras M ^a   Rodriguez Gonzalez J A ^a   Ares Pena, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; FEEDING NETWORKS; GAIN AND BANDWIDTHS; INNOVATIVE METHOD; PARASITIC ARRAY; PARASITIC DIPOLE; PARASITIC ELEMENT;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 77953775694     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER10040705     Document Type: Article

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