A quarter-wave U-shaped patch antenna with two unequal arms for wideband and dual-frequency operation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1082-1087

  Guo, Yong Xin ^b   Luk, Kwai Man ^c   Lee, Kai Fong ^a,d   Chair, Ricky ^c  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d The University of Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth widening; Electrically small antennas; Microscript antennas; Multiple band antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETISM; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PATCH ANTENNAS;

RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

EID: 0036699530     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.801285     Document Type: Article

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