Investigation of planar antennas with photovoltaic solar cells for mobile communications

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 622-626

  Henze, Norbert ^a   Weitz, Martin ^a   Hofmann, Pascal ^b   Bendel, Christian ^c   Kirchhof, Jörg ^c   Früchting, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^c Inst for Solar Ener Supp Technol   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mobile communication; Planar antenna; Simulation; Solar cells; Vehicular application; Wheeler Cap

Indexed keywords

COAXIAL PORTS; PLANAR ANTENNAS; VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS; WHEELER CAP METHOD;

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLARIZATION; SOLAR CELLS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244330353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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