Unit cell for frequency-tunable beamscanning reflectarrays

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5992-5999

  Rodrigo, Daniel ^a   Jofre, Lluís ^a   Perruisseau Carrier, Julien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Beam scanning; Cognitive radio; Microstrip arrays; Reconfigurable antennas; Reflectarrays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CELLS; COGNITIVE RADIO; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAM-SCANNING; BEAM-STEERING; MICROSTRIP ARRAYS; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REFLECTARRAYS;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84897584149     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2281375     Document Type: Article

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