A new quasi-yagi antenna for planar active antenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 910-918

  Deal, William R ^a   Kaneda, Noriaki ^a   Sor, James ^a   Qian, Yongxi ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Planar antennas; Quasi yagi antenna; Spatial power combining

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATION; FRONT TO BACK RATIO; PLANAR ANTENNAS; QUASI YAGI ANTENNA; SPATIAL POWER COMBINING; VOLTAGE STANDING WAVE RATIO;

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0034204881     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.846717     Document Type: Article

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