Terminal-to-terminal hybrid full-wave simulation of low-profile, electrically-small, near-ground antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 806-814

  Liao, DaHan ^a   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground proximity effects; Hybrid full wave analysis; Low profile antennas; Near earth radiowave propagation modeling and simulation; Unattended ground sensor (UGS) networks

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); RADIO TRANSMISSION; SENSORS; TRANSCEIVERS;

HYBRID FULL-WAVE ANALYSIS; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNA; UNATTENDED GROUND SENSOR NETWORK;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 41649091850     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.916891     Document Type: Article

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