A compact high gain antenna for small satellite applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-282

  Arnieri, Emilio ^a   Boccia, Luigi ^a   Amendola, Giandomenico ^a   Di Massa, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; High gain microstrip antenna; Small satellite missions; Stacked parasitic element

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; SPECIFICATIONS;

RADIATING ELEMENTS; SMALL SATELLITE MISSIONS; STACKED PARASITIC ELEMENT;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 33947394464     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.889831     Document Type: Article

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