Determination of reactance loading for circularly polarized circular loop antennas with a uniform traveling-wave current distribution

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3920-3929

  Li, RongLin ^a   Bushyager, Nathan A ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular loop antenna; Circular polarization; Reactively loaded antenna; Uniform traveling wave current distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC REACTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

CAPACITIVE-LOADED CIRCULAR LOOP ANTENNAS; CIRCULAR LOOP ANTENNA; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; REACTIVELY LOADED ANTENNA; UNIFORM TRAVELLING-WAVE CURRENT DISTRIBUTION;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 29444452570     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.859767     Document Type: Article

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