Theoretical analysis on reflection properties of reflectarray unit cells using quality factors

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 201-210

  Karnati, Kalyan K ^a   Yusuf, Yazid ^b   Ebadi, Siamak ^a   Gong, Xun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity resonators; coupled mode analysis; microstrip antennas; quality (Q) factor; rectangular waveguides; reflectarray

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CAVITY RESONATORS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; QUALITY CONTROL; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED-MODE ANALYSIS; COUPLING REGION; DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; MEASUREMENT DATA; NOVEL THEORETICAL APPROACHES; PATCH WIDTH; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUALITY FACTORS; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTION PHASE; REFLECTION PROPERTIES; SUBSTRATE PROPERTIES; UNIT CELL ELEMENT; UNIT CELLS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872035802     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2214753     Document Type: Article

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