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Serially-fed phased array antennas with dielectric phase shifters

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A phased array antenna includes a plurality of radiating elements, a feed line assembly, and a ground plane positioned between the radiating element and the feed line, with the ground plane having a plurality opening positioned between radiating and feed line assemblies and a voltage tunable dielectric phase shifters coupled to the feedline assembly as mentioned in this paper.
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A phased array antenna includes a plurality of radiating elements, a feed line assembly, a ground plane positioned between the plurality of radiating elements and the feed line assembly, with the ground plane having a plurality of openings positioned between the plurality of radiating elements and the feed line assembly, and a plurality of voltage tunable dielectric phase shifters coupled to the feed line assembly.

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