The performance properties of electrically small resonant multiple-arm folded wire antennas

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 13-27

  Best, Steven R ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; Antenna theory; Dipole antennas; Electrically small antennas; Folded antennas; Linear antennas; Monopole antennas; Q factor; Wire antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNA THEORY; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; FOLDED ANTENNAS; LINEAR ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; WIRE ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 33244478802     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2005.1589871     Document Type: Article

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