Experimental study of the effect of paint on embedded automotive antennas

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3057-3061

  Pell, Brendan ^a   Rowe, Wayne ^a   Sulic, Edin ^a   Ghorbani, Kamran ^a   John, Sabu ^a   Gupta, Rahul ^a   Zhang, Kefei ^a   Hughes, Brian ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Composite Materials Engineering ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Antenna; Automobile; Automotive; Cover; Embedded; Encapsulated; Integrated; Metallic; Paint; Superstrate; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; IMAGE COMPRESSION; PAINT; POLYMERS; VEHICLE SPRINGS; VEHICLES;

ANTENNA; AUTOMOBILE; AUTOMOTIVE; COVER; EMBEDDED; ENCAPSULATED; INTEGRATED; METALLIC; SUPERSTRATE; VEHICLE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 47749154100     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECS.2008.331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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