Design and performance of an ultrawide-band ceramic-loaded slot spiral

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2193-2199

  Kramer, Brad A ^a   Lee, Ming ^a   Chen, Chi Chih ^a   Volakis, John L ^a,b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Ceramics; Dielectrically loaded antennas; Small antennas; Spirals; Wideband

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DESIGN; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); OPTIMIZATION; RESISTORS;

DIELECTRICALLY LOADED ANTENNAS; SLOT SPIRAL ANTENNA; SMALL ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDE-BAND ANTENNA;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 23044502614     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.850715     Document Type: Article

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