Bandwidth enhancement and size reduction of microstrip slot antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 994-1003

  Latif, S I ^a   Shafai, L ^a   Sharma, S K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b InfoMagnetics Technologies Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dual slot antenna; Finite ground plane; Microstrip line feed; Microstrip slot antenna; Monopole; Polarization diversity; Wide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; OPTIMIZATION;

DUAL SLOT ANTENNA; FINITE GROUND PLANE; MICROSTRIP LINE FEED; MICROSTRIP SLOT ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ANTENNA; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 16344386629     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.842674     Document Type: Article

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