Broadband Reflectarray Antennas Using Double-Layer Subwavelength Patch Elements

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 1139-1142

  Nayeri, Payam ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; broadband; double layer; reflectarray; subwavelength

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008025296     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: 15485757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2094178     Document Type: Article

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