Planar miniature tapered-slot-fed annular slot antennas for ultrawide-band radios

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1194-1202

  Ma, Tzyh Ghuang ^a   Jeng, Shyh Kang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; Antenna transient analysis; Slot antennas; Ultrawide band (UWB) antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ANTENNA TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB) ANTENNA;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 16344368868     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.842648     Document Type: Article

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