Passive compensation of beam shift in a bending array

Progress In Electromagnetics Research C

Volumn 29, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-53

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

ACTIVE COMPENSATION SYSTEMS; BEAM SHIFT; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; MAIN BEAMS; PASSIVE COMPENSATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 84860139009     PISSN: 19378718     EISSN: 15309681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIERC12030403     Document Type: Article

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