New proximity coupled feeding method for reconfigurable circularly polarized microstrip ring antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1860-1866

  Tong, Kin Fai ^a   Huang, Jingjing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circularly polarized antennas; Reconfigurable antennas; Ring microstrip antenna; Single feed

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION (CP); CIRCULARLY POLARIZED (CP); INPUT PORTS; LEFT HANDED (LH); MICROSTRIP FEED LINES; MICROSTRIP RING; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RING ANTENNAS; U-SHAPED;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 47249092834     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924736     Document Type: Article

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