Small low-profile loop wideband antennas with unidirectional radiation characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 72-77

  Kwon, Do Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Yongjin ^a  

^a Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directive antennas; Electrically small antennas; Loop antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY BAND; UNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION; WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

LOOP ANTENNAS;

EID: 33846920381     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.888393     Document Type: Article

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