Electromagnetic modeling of conformal wideband and multi-band patch antennas by bridging a solid-object modeler with MoM software

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 42-52

  Piper, B R ^a   Bialkowski, M E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conformal antennas; Microstrip antennas; Moment methods; Software tools; Spherical antennas

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; SPHERICAL ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 13244265585     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2004.1388825     Document Type: Article

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