Angular resolution improvement of infrared phased-array antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 119-122

  Slovick, Brian A ^a   Bean, Jeffrey A ^a   Boreman, Glenn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dipole antennas; directional antennas; infrared detectors; phased arrays

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ANGULAR RESPONSE; ANTENNA ELEMENT; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; METAL THICKNESS; METAL-OXIDE; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PHASED ARRAYS; PROPAGATION LOSS; RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; TRANSMISSION LINE; TWO-ELEMENT ARRAY;

BEAMFORMING; DETECTORS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC LINES; INFRARED DETECTORS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; TUNNEL DIODES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 79953204290     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2114632     Document Type: Article

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