Design of reconfigurable slot antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 645-654

  Peroulis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Katehi, Linda P B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic tuning; Miniaturization; PIN diode switch; Reconfigurable antenna; Resonant antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRIP LINES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SWITCHES;

ELECTRONIC TUNING; PIN DIODE SWITCHES; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; RESONANT ANTENNA;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 13944275214     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.841339     Document Type: Article

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