Design and Characterization of Half Maxwell Fish-Eye Lens Antennas in Millimeter Waves

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2292-2300

  Fuchs, Benjamin ^a   Lafond, Olivier ^a   Rondineau, Sébastien ^b   Himdi, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

High directivity; lens antennas; millimeter wave antenna; optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008054399     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.875255     Document Type: Article

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