New radiation Q limits for spherical wire antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2757-2763

  Thal Jr , Herbert L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Electrically small antennas; High pass filters; Ladder circuits; Q factor; Spherical antennas

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNA SIZE; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNA; SPHERICAL ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA RADIATION;

EID: 33750093630     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.882184     Document Type: Article

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