On understanding the radiation mechanism of reflectarray antennas: An insightful and illustrative approach

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 14-38

  Rajagopalan, Harish ^a   Xu, Shenheng ^a   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

microstrip; Patch element; reflectarray; reflection phase; scattering

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATION; MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAYS; MICROSTRIPES; PATCH ELEMENT; RADIATION MECHANISM; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTION PHASE; SCATTERED FIELD; UNIQUE POINTS; UNIT CELLS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; OPTICAL DESIGN; SCATTERING; VISUALIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 84869386615     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2012.6348112     Document Type: Article

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