Accurate electromagnetic modeling of liquid crystal cells for reconfigurable reflectarrays

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EUCAP 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 997-1001

  Perez Palomino, G ^a   Encinar, J A ^a   Barba, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; ANISOTROPIC EFFECTS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CAPACITIVE COUPLINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; ELECTROSTATIC FIELD; INHOMOGENEITIES; LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS; MOLECULAR MODELS; NUMBER OF BLOCKS; PRINTED DIPOLE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REFLECTARRAYS;

ANTENNAS; ERRORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 79959643790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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