Millimeter-wave substrate integrated waveguide passive van atta reflector array

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1465-1470

  Ali, Ahmed A M ^a,b   El Shaarawy, Heba B ^a,c   Aubert, Hervé ^a,d  

^a LAAS CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave frequencies; retro directive antenna (RDA); retro reflector; slot array antenna; substrate integrated waveguide (SIW); Van Atta array

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; DESIGN; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REFLECTION; SLOT ANTENNAS;

MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; RETRO REFLECTOR; RETRO-DIRECTIVE ANTENNA (RDA); SLOT ARRAY ANTENNAS; VAN-ATTA ARRAY;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84874894719     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2228622     Document Type: Article

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