Small spherical antennas using arrays of electromagnetically coupled planar elements

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 7-10

  Stuart, Howard R ^a,b   Tran, Cuong ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Chu limit; Electrically small antennas; Spherical antennas

Indexed keywords

CHU LIMIT; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED PLANAR ELEMENTS; SPHERICAL ANTENNAS;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RADIATION; RESONATORS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947431611     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2006.890743     Document Type: Article

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