Hidden automotive antenna performance and simulation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3707-3712

  Low, Lester ^a   Langley, Richard ^b   Breden, Richard ^c   Callaghan, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Harada Industries   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antennas; Automotive vehicle antennas; Printed antennas

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ANTENNAS; AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE; BROADCAST SIGNALS; INPUT RETURN LOSS; PRINTED ANTENNA; PRINTED ANTENNAS; VEHICLE ANTENNAS; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

DAMPING; ROOFS; VEHICLES;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 34548806990     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886546     Document Type: Article

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