Quadrifilar loop antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 115-120

  Fusco, Vincent F ^a   Cahill, Robert ^a   Li, Rong Lin ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Loop antennas; Quadrifilar antennas; Thin wire antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COAXIAL CABLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

QUADRIFILAR ANTENNAS;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0037238741     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.809046     Document Type: Article

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