Small H-shaped antennas for MMIC applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1134-1141

  Singh, Dilbagh ^b   Kalialakis, Christos ^a,b   Gardner, Peter ^a,b   Hall, Peter S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP SUBSTRATES; PATCH ANTENNA; PRINTED ANTENNAS; RADIATION GAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SUBSTRATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034217193     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.876333     Document Type: Article

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