A Half-Moon Antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3237-3244

  Nakano, Hisamatsu ^a   Yamamoto, Yusuke ^a,b   Seto, Masaaki ^a,c   Hitosugi, Kazuo ^a   Yamauchi, Junji ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CANON INC   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cylindrical finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Small aperture antenna; Tilted beam formation; Wide radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CYLINDRICAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; HALF-MOON ANTENNA; SMALL APERTURE ANTENNA; TILTED BEAM FORMATION; WIDE RADIATION;

ANTENNA RADIATION;

EID: 11144321354     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.836427     Document Type: Article

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