Enhancing UHF antenna functionality through dielectric inclusions and texturization

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 317-329

  Psychoudakis, Dimitris ^a   Volakis, John L ^a   Wing, Zach N ^b   Pillai, Sunil K ^b,c   Halloran, John W ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEO2 Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Dielectric loaded antennas; Electrically small antennas; UHF antennas

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DESIGN; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY;

DIELECTRIC LOADED ANTENNAS; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; UHF ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 32444436093     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.863401     Document Type: Article

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