Design and experiment of a single-feed quad-beam reflectarray antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1166-1171

  Nayeri, Payam ^a   Yang, Fan ^a,b   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternating projection method; Intersection approach; Multi beam; Optimization; Reflectarray

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING PROJECTION METHOD; CONVERGENCE CONDITIONS; DESIGN METHOD; DIRECT DESIGN METHOD; GEOMETRICAL METHODS; HIGH GAIN ANTENNAS; KA BAND; MULTI-BEAM; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; SIDE LOBES; SUPERPOSITION METHOD; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

MULTIBEAM ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 84857025481     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173126     Document Type: Article

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