A circularly polarized short backfire antenna excited by an unbalance-fed cross aperture

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 852-859

  Li, RongLin ^a   Thompson, Dane C ^a   Papapolymerou, John ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circularly polarized antenna; Short backfire antenna (SBA); Slot fed antenna

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC);

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA; SHORT BACKFIRE ANTENNA (SBA); SLOT-FED ANTENNA;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 33644926950     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.869910     Document Type: Article

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