L-probe fed thick-substrate patch antenna mounted on a finite ground plane

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1955-1963

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

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c The University of Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Microstrip antennas; Wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA RADIATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0042363673     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2003.815430     Document Type: Article

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