60-GHz electronically reconfigurable large reflectarray using single-bit phase shifters

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2524-2531

  Kamoda, Hirokazu ^a   Iwasaki, Toru ^a,b   Tsumochi, Jun ^a   Kuki, Takao ^a   Hashimoto, Osamu ^c  

^a NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beamforming; millimeter wave; p i n diode; phase shifter; reflectarray

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; BEAM FOCUSING; DIGITAL PHASE SHIFTER; MICROSTRIP PATCH; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING SYSTEMS; NEAR-FIELD; PIN DIODE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; SINGLE-BIT; SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS;

ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MILLIMETER WAVES; PHASE SHIFT;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 79960128285     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2152338     Document Type: Article

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