Passive compensation of beam shift in an array on a bending surface

European Microwave Week 2011: "Wave to the Future", EuMW 2011, Conference Proceedings - 8th European Radar Conference, EuRAD 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 85-88

  Seidel, T J ^a,b   Rowe, W S T ^a,b   Ghorbani, K ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The University of Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

beam steering; Conformal load bearing antennas; left handed transmission line

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SYSTEMS; BEAM SHIFT; BEAM-STEERING; CONFORMAL ARRAYS; HIGH LOAD; LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE; LOAD-BEARING ANTENNAS; PASSIVE COMPENSATION;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC LINES; RADAR; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84855419704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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