A printed, broadband Luneburg lens antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3055-3059

  Pfeiffer, Carl ^a   Grbic, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband antennas; Luneburg lens; multibeam antennas; printed circuit fabrication

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; HALF POWER BEAMWIDTH; LENS ANTENNA; LUNEBURG LENS; MULTI-BEAM; PRINTED CIRCUIT FABRICATION; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC MODE;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; FABRICATION; LENSES; MULTIBEAM ANTENNAS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LENS ANTENNAS;

EID: 77956353605     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2052582     Document Type: Article

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