Low-profile enhanced-B and width PIFA antennas for wireless communications packaging

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 10 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1879-1888

  Virga, Kathleen L ^a   Rahmat Samii, Yahya ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad band antennas; Conformai antennas; FDTD; Mom; PIFA; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

METHOD OF MOMENTS; PLANAR INVERTED F ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031248324     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.641786     Document Type: Article

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