A circularly polarized stacked electromagnetically coupled patch antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1365-1370

  Chung, Kwok L ^a   Mohan, Ananda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antenna efficiency; Axial ratio bandwidth (AxBW); EMCP antennas; Singly fed circularly polarized (SFCP) patch antennas; Stacked patch antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; PERMITTIVITY; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

AXIAL-RATIO BANDWIDTH; LINEAR POLARIZATION; SINGLY FED CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNAS; STACKED PATCH ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 2942587441     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.827490     Document Type: Article

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