Metamaterial-inspired efficient electrically small antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 691-707

  Erentok, Aycan ^a,b   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antenna efficiency; Antennas; Electrically small antenna (ESA); Metamaterials

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNA;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 41649095934     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.916949     Document Type: Article

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