Electrically small antenna elements using negative permittivity resonators

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1644-1653

  Stuart, Howard R ^a   Pidwerbetsky, Alex ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; Electrically small antennas; Metamaterials; Plasma antennas; Q factor; Resonators

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); PERMITTIVITY; RESONATORS;

ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; PLASMA ANTENNAS; Q FACTOR;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 33745212269     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.875498     Document Type: Article

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