A concept for a lens configuration for 360° scanning

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 985-988

  Zaghloul, Amir I ^a,b   Dong, Junwei ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Microwave lens; Wide angle scanning

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-SCANNING; ANGULAR DOMAIN; ANGULAR RANGE; BEAM PORTS; CIRCULAR ARRAYS; CONFORMAL ARRAYS; RADIATING APERTURE; RADIATING ELEMENTS; SCANNING RANGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING; TRANSMISSION LINE;

BEAMFORMING; ELECTRON OPTICS; LENSES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SCANNING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77956200855     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2030137     Document Type: Article

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