Design and validation of a reconfigurable single varactor-tuned reflectarray

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 635-645

  Venneri, Francesca ^a   Costanzo, Sandra ^a   Di Massa, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beam scanning antennas; microstrip arrays; reconfigurable antennas; reflectarray antennas; reflector antennas; varactors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SCANNING ANTENNAS; VARACTORS;

ACTIVE ELEMENTS; APERTURE COUPLED; BIASING VOLTAGES; H-PLANES; MICROSTRIP ARRAYS; MULTIBEAMS; PHASE TUNING; RECONFIGURABILITY; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS; REFLECTARRAYS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SHAPED BEAM PATTERNS; SYNTHESIS PROCEDURE; TEST EXAMPLES; VARACTOR DIODES;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 84873373875     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2226229     Document Type: Article

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