A new approach combining surrounded-element and compression methods for analyzing reconfigurable reflectarray antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3215-3221

  Yann, Clément ^a   Loison, Renaud ^a   Gillard, Raphaël ^a   Labeyrie, Michèle ^b   Martinaud, Jean Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Compression technique; reconfigurable reflectarray; rigorous analysis; surrounded cell approach

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; COMPRESSION METHODS; COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; GLOBAL ARRAYS; MUTUAL COUPLING EFFECTS; NUMERICAL COMPLEXITY; POST PROCESSING; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; SURROUNDED CELL APPROACH;

ANTENNAS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 84863678123     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2196938     Document Type: Article

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