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Circular beam-steering reconfigurable antenna with liquid metal parasitics

Rodrigo et al., 2012

Document ID
9901564836104386762
Author
Rodrigo D
Jofre L
Cetiner B
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation

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A novel antenna reconfiguration mechanism based on the displacement of liquid metal sections is presented. The liquid nature of the moving parts of the antenna helps avoid the main disadvantage of mechanically-actuated reconfigurable antennas which is the …
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