An approach for calculating the limiting bandwidth - Reflection coefficient product for microstrip patch antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1328-1331

  Ghorbani, A ^a   Abd Alhameed, Raed A ^b   McEwan, Neil J ^b   Zhou, D ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bode Fano; Microstrip antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

BODE-FANO THEORY; MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 33645725015     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.872641     Document Type: Article

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