Highly polarized, directive radiation from a fabry-prot cavity leaky-wave antenna based on a metal strip grating

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3873-3883

  Burghignoli, Paolo ^a   Lovat, Giampiero ^a   Capolino, Filippo ^b   Jackson, David R ^c   Wilton, Donald R ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot cavity antennas; leaky waves; omnidirectional radiation patterns; spatial dispersion

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVE RADIATION; FREE SPACE; GROUND PLANES; HIGH-DIRECTIVITY; HOMOGENIZED MODEL; HORIZONTAL ELECTRIC DIPOLES; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; LEAKY WAVES; METAL STRIP GRATING; NETWORK REPRESENTATION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION; OMNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION PATTERN; PENCIL BEAM; POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION PURITY; RADIATION PROPERTIES; SPATIAL DISPERSION; WAVE NUMBERS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; DISPERSION (WAVES); MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; POLARIZATION; STRIP METAL;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 78650012457     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2078441     Document Type: Article

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