The Koch monopole: A small fractal antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1773-1781

  Baliarda, Carles Puente ^a,b   Romeu, Jordi ^a,b   Cardama, Angel ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fractals; Small antennas

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FRACTALS; ITERATIVE METHODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

KOCH MONOPOLE; SMALL FRACTAL ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034313113     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.900236     Document Type: Article

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