Wideband beam-steerable flat reflectors via transformation optics

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 1290-1294

  Yang, Rui ^a,b   Tang, Wenxuan ^a   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam steerable; flat reflector; transformation optics

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERABLE; BEAM-STEERING; DIELECTRIC COMPONENTS; DISCRETE COORDINATES; FLAT REFLECTOR; OFF-AXIS; PARABOLIC REFLECTOR; RADIATION BEAMS; REFLECTOR SYSTEM; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS; WIDE-BAND;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FREQUENCY BANDS;

REFLECTION;

EID: 83455257925     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2176461     Document Type: Article

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