Bandwidth and gain improvement of a circularly polarized dual-rhombic loop antenna

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 84-87

  Li, RongLin ^a   Traille, Anya ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband antenna; Circular polarization; Impedance matching; Loop antenna; Short backfire antenna (SBA)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; AXIAL RATIO; BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; BROADBAND BALUN; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; GAIN IMPROVEMENT; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; IMPEDANCE MATCHINGS; PARASITIC ELEMENT; SHORT BACKFIRE ANTENNA;

BANDWIDTH; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); POLARIZATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33845597216     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2006.872428     Document Type: Article

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