A low-profile dual-band surface wave antenna with a monopole-like pattern

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3404-3412

  Al Zoubi, Asem ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Kishk, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Monopole antennas; Patch antennas; Periodic structure; Surface wave antenna (SWA)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FREQUENCY BANDS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

MONOPOLE ANTENNA; SURFACE WAVE ANTENNA;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 37249021440     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.910310     Document Type: Article

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