An electronically tunable single-layer reflectarray antenna element with improved bandwidth

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 1241-1244

  Liu, Chang ^a   Hum, Sean Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

CELL LOSS; CONTROL VOLTAGES; ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; MICROSTRIP ARRAYS; PHASE TUNING; QUASI-LINEAR; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE RESONANCE; SINGLE-LAYER STRUCTURE; UNIT CELLS; VARACTOR DIODES; VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

BANDWIDTH; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; RESONANCE; VARACTORS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 79251474348     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2104934     Document Type: Article

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