FDTD Calculation of Radiation Patterns, Impedance, and Gain for a Monopole Antenna on a Conducting Box

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1992, Pages 1577-1583

  Luebbers, Raymond ^a   Chen, Li ^b   Uno, Toru ^b   Adachi, Saburo ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONDUCTING BOX; DIELECTRIC-COVERED BOX; FDTD METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONOPOLE ANTENNA;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 0026960674     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.204752     Document Type: Article

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