Millimeter-wave transmitarrays for wavefront and polarization control

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4407-4417

  Pfeiffer, Carl ^a   Grbic, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam forming; Circular polarization; Metasurface; Millimeter wave; Reflectarray; Sheet impedance; Transmit array

Indexed keywords

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; METASURFACE; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; REFLECTARRAYS; REFRACTING SURFACES; SUBWAVELENGTH THICKNESS; TRANSMIT ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); WAVEFRONTS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84890432268     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2287173     Document Type: Article

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