Radiation analysis approaches for reflectarray antennas [antenna designer's notebook]

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-134

  Nayeri, Payam ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^a   Yang, Fan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna array theory; antenna radiation patterns; aperture field; reflectarray

Indexed keywords

APERTURE FIELDS; CROSS-POLARIZATION LEVEL; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; RADIATION ANALYSIS; RADIATION PERFORMANCE; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAYS; TIME-EFFICIENT METHODS;

ANTENNA RADIATION; BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84874874394     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2013.6474499     Document Type: Article

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