New half-hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna for broadband monopole-type radiation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3621-3628

  Guha, Debatosh ^a   Antar, Yahia M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna; Monopole type antenna; Wideband dielectric resonator antenna

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; PEAK GAIN; RADIATION PATTERNS; RESONANT MODE; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 34547121342     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886547     Document Type: Article

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