Omnidirectional loop antenna with left-handed loading

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 495-498

  Borja, Alejandro Lucas ^a   Hall, Peter S ^b   Liu, Qing ^b   Iizuka, Hideo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Rd Management Section   (Japan)

Author keywords

Left handed materials; Loaded antennas; Loop antennas; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM; INPUT IMPEDANCE; LEFT HANDED MATERIALS; LOADED ANTENNAS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL PATTERN; SIMULATED RESULTS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; LOADING; LOOP ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 40149083921     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2007.905016     Document Type: Article

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