Design and validation of gathered elements for steerable-beam reflectarrays based on patches aperture-coupled to delay lines

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1756-1761

  Carrasco, Eduardo ^a   Barba, Mariano ^a   Encinar, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aperture coupled patch; reflectarray; reflectarray cell; steerable beam; sub array

Indexed keywords

APERTURE-COUPLED PATCH; REFLECTARRAY; REFLECTARRAYS; STEERABLE-BEAM; SUB-ARRAY;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ONTOLOGY; WAVES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79955582434     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2122222     Document Type: Article

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