A fluidic loading mechanism for phase reconfigurable reflectarray elements

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 876-879

  Long, Stephen A ^a   Huff, Gregory H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microfluidic; reconfigurable; Reflectarray

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; COLLOIDAL MATERIALS; MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAYS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PHASE CHANGE; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REACTIVE LOADING; REFLECTARRAY; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS; RETURN LOSS; UNIT CELLS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; MICROFLUIDICS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 80052910333     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2165930     Document Type: Article

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