Electronic Beam-Steering Design for UWB Phased Array

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2431-2438

  Chia, Michael Yan Wah ^a   Lim, Teck Hwee ^a,b   Yin, Jee Khoi ^a   Chee, Piew Yong ^a   Leong, Siew Weng ^a   Sim, Chan Kuen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b BlueChip   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Beam steering; BiCMOS; CMOS; phased array; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008025495     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.875300     Document Type: Article

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