Ultra-broadband car antennas for communications and navigation applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2020-2027

  Gschwendtner, Eberhard ^a,b   Wiesbeck, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automotive; Broadband antenna; Car antenna; Conformal integration; Coplanar waveguide; Externally fed spiral; Frequency independent antenna; Low profile; Spiral antenna

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC LINES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0042864749     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.815341     Document Type: Article

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