Investigation of circularly polarized loop antennas with a parasitic element for bandwidth enhancement

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3930-3939

  Li, RongLin ^a   DeJean, Gerald ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad band antenna; Circularly polarized (CP) antenna; Loop antenna

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); METHOD OF MOMENTS;

AXIAL RATIO (AR); BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED (CP) ANTENNA;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 29444442108     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.859917     Document Type: Article

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