Dual-polarisation reflectarray made of cells with two orthogonal sets of parallel dipoles for bandwidth and cross-polarisation improvement

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 1389-1397

  Florencio, Rafael ^a   Encinar, Jose ^b   Boix, Rafael R ^a   Perez Palomino, Gerardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH;

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; BROADBAND OPERATION; CROSS-POLARISATION; LINEAR POLARISATION; RADIATION LEVELS; REFLECTARRAY ANTENNAS; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84914816136     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2014.0202     Document Type: Article

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