Directional control of infrared antenna-coupled tunnel diodes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20960-20967

  Slovick, Brian A ^a   Bean, Jeffrey A ^a   Krenz, Peter M ^a   Boreman, Glenn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; INFRARED RADIATION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TUNNEL DIODES;

ANTENNA ELEMENT; COPLANAR STRIP TRANSMISSION LINES; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DIRECTIONAL CONTROL; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; GROUND PLANES; INFRARED ANTENNAS; INTERFERENCE MODELS; METAL-OXIDE; MOM DIODES; NARROW BEAMS; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; QUARTER WAVES; RADIATION PATTERNS; RECEPTION ANGLE; SIDE LOBES; SPECIFIC LOCATION; TRANSMISSION LINE;

DIODES;

EID: 77958022725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020960     Document Type: Article

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