Wideband reconfigurable rolled planar monopole antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 6 II, 2007, Pages 1760-1767

  Ruvio, Giuseppe ^a   Ammann, Max J ^a   Chen, Zhi Ning ^b  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antennas; Band notching; Monopolar antennas; Reconfigurable antennas

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

BAND-NOTCHING; MONOPOLAR ANTENNAS; PLANAR MONOPOLE ANTENNA; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS;

BROADCASTING ANTENNAS;

EID: 34250804434     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.898575     Document Type: Article

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