Analysis of printed antennas mounted on a coated circular cylinder of arbitrary size

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2797-2807

  Kaifas, Theodoros N ^a   Sahalos, John N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coated cylinder; Conformal antennas; Green's function; Input impedance; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

COATED CYLINDER; CONFORMAL ANTENNA; DIELECTRIC ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33750133590     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.882159     Document Type: Article

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