A planar reconfigurable aperture with lens and reflectarray modes of operation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 1, 2010, Pages 3547-3555

  Lau, Jonathan Yun ^a   Hum, Sean Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; lens antennas; microstrip arrays; reconfigurable antennas; reflectarrays; reflector antennas; varactors

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ELEMENTS; BIASING SCHEME; DIRECTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; HIGH-GAIN; MICROSTRIP ARRAYS; MODES OF OPERATION; PLANAR ARRAYS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SCANNING RANGE; VARACTOR DIODES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; DESIGN; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SCANNING; VARACTORS;

LENS ANTENNAS;

EID: 78650277940     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2086373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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