A discussion on the quality factor of impedance matched electrically small wire antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 502-508

  Best, Steven R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrically small antennas; Quality factor; Wire antennas

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRICALY SMALL ANTENNAS; QUALITY FACTOR; WIRE ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 13244277638     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.837107     Document Type: Article

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