Development of a wide-band short backfire antenna excited by an unbalance-fed H-shaped slot

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 662-671

  Li, RongLin ^a   Thompson, Dane ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a   Papapolymerou, John ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Short backfire antenna; Slot fed antenna; Wideband antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SLOT ANTENNAS; TELEMETERING SYSTEMS;

MOBILE SATELLITE COMMUNICATION; SHORT BACKFIRE ANTENNA; SLOT FED ANTENNA; WIDEBAND ANTENNA; WIRLESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 13944278440     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.841291     Document Type: Article

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