Numerical analysis of arbitrarily shaped probe-excited single-arm printed wire antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1307-1317

  Li, Rong Lin ^a   Nakano, Hisamatsu ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integral equation; Microstrip antennas; Moment method; Printed antennas; Probe feed

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

SINGLE-ARM PRINTED WIRE ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032165067     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.719974     Document Type: Article

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