Demonstration of a gathered element for reconfigurable-beam reflectarrays based on ohmic MEMS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1413-1416

  Carrasco, Eduardo ^a   Barba, Mariano ^a   Reig, Bruno ^b   Encinar, Jose A ^a   Charvet, Pierre L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURE COUPLED; COPLANAR LINES; DELAY LINE; GOLD WIRE; MEMS CHARACTERIZATION; MICROSTRIP NETWORKS; MICROSTRIPES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS; REFLECTARRAYS; RF APPLICATIONS; SWITCHING DEVICES; WAVEGUIDE SIMULATORS;

ANTENNAS; OPTICAL DESIGN; WAVES;

ELECTRIC SWITCHES;

EID: 79959655017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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