Microstrip fractal antennas for multistandard terminals

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 351-354

  Guterman, Jerzy ^a   Moreira, António A ^b   Peixeiro, Custódio ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fractal antennas; Microstrip antennas; Miniaturized antennas; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna systems

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FRACTAL ANTENNAS; FRACTAL MINIATURIZATION; MINIATURIZED ANTENNAS; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) ANTENNA SYSTEMS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 11944268357     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2004.840253     Document Type: Article

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