Computation of input impedance of printed antennas with finite size and arbitrarily shaped dielectric substrate and ground plane

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 615-619

  Lu, Cai Cheng ^a   Yu, Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Input impedance; Integral equations; Microstrip antenna

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SUBSTRATES;

DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATE; PRINTED ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 1942424769     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.823894     Document Type: Article

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