Partially reflective surface antenna with dynamic beamwidth control

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 1157-1160

  Perruisseau Carrier, Julien ^b   Bartolic, Juraj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beamwidth; FabryPerot antenna; partially reflective surface (PRS); reconfigurable antenna; zoomable antenna

Indexed keywords

BEAM WIDTHS; FABRY-PEROT; PARTIALLY REFLECTIVE SURFACE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; ZOOMABLE ANTENNA;

VARACTORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78650570825     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2098386     Document Type: Article

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