Low-DC voltage-controlled steering-antenna radome utilizing tunable active metamaterial

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 170-178

  Jiang, Tao ^a   Wang, Zhiyu ^b   Li, Dong ^b   Pan, Jingnan ^c   Zhang, Bin ^b   Huangfu, Jiangtao ^b   Salamin, Yannick ^b   Li, Changzhi ^d   Ran, Lixin ^b  

^a HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterial; steering antenna; varactor

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIRECTION; DIRECT-CURRENT; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; IN-PHASE; LOW COSTS; PHASE DELAY; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TRANSMITTED WAVES; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; METAMATERIALS; RADOMES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VARACTORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84855436268     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2171981     Document Type: Article

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