On the optimal radiation bandwidth of printed slot antennas surrounded by EBGs

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1074-1083

  Neto, Andrea ^a   Llombart, Nuria ^a,b   Gerini, Giampiero ^a   De Maagt, Peter ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG); Planar circularly symmetric electromagnetic bandgap (EBG); Planar printed antennas; Slot antennas; Surface waves; Wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; RADIATION EFFECTS; SURFACE WAVES;

DIELECTRIC SLAB; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG); OPTIMAL RADIATION BANDWIDTH; PLANAR CIRCULARLY SYMMETRIC (PCS); PRINTED SLOT ANTENNAS; WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 33645712740     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.872586     Document Type: Article

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