Reconfigurable Antennas

Modern Antenna Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 369-398

  Huff, Gregory H ^a   Bernhard, Jennifer T ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced reconfigurable antenna applications; Crossed slot switched array; Reconfigurable antennas and reconfigurable large aperture antennas

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS;

CROSSED-SLOT; LEVEL OF INTEGRATIONS; MATERIAL COMPONENTS; RECONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REVERSIBLE CHANGE; SMALL APERTURE ANTENNA; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 84948748032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470294154.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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