Analysis of injection-locked antenna array including mutual coupling effects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2885-2890

  Lee, Kun Chou ^a   Chu, Tah Hsiung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Injection locked oscillators (ILO); Loaded antennas; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

INJECTION LOCKED OSCILLATORS; LOADED ANTENNAS; MUTUAL COUPLING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 9744249538     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.835236     Document Type: Article

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