Proof of concept of a dual-band circularly-polarized RF MEMS beam-switching reflectarray

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5451-5455

  Guclu, Caner ^a,b   Perruisseau Carrier, Julien ^c   Civi, Ozlem Aydin ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dual band; Index Terms Circularly polarized; Reconfigurable; Reflectarray; RF MEMS; Split ring

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; IMPATT DIODES; MEMS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; QUARTZ;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; DUAL BAND; RECONFIGURABLE; REFLECTARRAYS; RF-MEMS; SPLIT RINGS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84881303233     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207690     Document Type: Article

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