Transmission line analysis of aperture-coupled reflectarrays

Progress In Electromagnetics Research C

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-12

  Venneri, F ^a   Costanzo, S ^a   Di Massa, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

APERTURE COUPLED; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EQUIVALENT IMPEDANCE; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; RADIATING ELEMENTS; TRANSMISSION LINE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 77954191060     PISSN: 19378718     EISSN: 15309681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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