Highly efficient unidirectional twin arc-slot antennas on electrically thin substrates

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-58

  Qiu, Meide ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compact antennas; Low profile antennas; Parallel plate mode; Phased arrays; Surface waves; Truncated ground plane; Unidirectional slots

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GAIN MEASUREMENT;

COMPACT ANTENNAS; ELECTRICALLY THIN SUBSTRATES; TRANSVERSE ELECTROMAGNETIC MODE; TRUNCATED GROUND PLANE; UNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 1542316032     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.822412     Document Type: Article

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