Performance of shorted microstrip patch antennas for mobile communications handsets at 1800 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 815-822

  Rowley, Jack T ^a   Waterhouse, Rod B ^a  

^a TELSTRA RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; TELEPHONE SETS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LAND MOBILE RADIO; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS HANDSETS; PATCH ANTENNAS; SHORTED MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032690209     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.774135     Document Type: Article

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