Folded loop antenna for mobile hand-held units

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 260-266

  Katsibas, Konstantinos D ^a   Baianis, Constantine A ^a   Tirkas, Panayiotis A ^a   Birtcher, Craig R ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COATED MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MOBILE ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PRINTED RADIATING ELEMENTS;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031999579     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.660971     Document Type: Article

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