A broadband, vertically polarized, circular switched parasitic array for indoor portable DVB-T applications at the IV UHF band

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 547-552

  Panagiotou, Stylianos C ^a   Mitilineos, Stelios A ^a   Dimousios, Themistoklis D ^a   Capsalis, Christos N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broadband antenna; DVB T; Electronic beam steering; Switched parasitic arrays; UHF

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SHORT CIRCUIT CURRENTS; SWITCHING FREQUENCY;

BROADBAND ANTENNAS; ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING; SWITCHED PARASITIC ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 34249776379     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2007.891709     Document Type: Article

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