Spiral antenna irradiation into lossy media with Debye dispersion

2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 311-314

  Tofighi, M R ^a   Sunal, A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal FDTD; Debye dispersion; Medical antennas; Spiral antenna

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL FDTD; DEBYE DISPERSION; LOSSY MEDIUM; MEDICAL ANTENNAS; SPIRAL ANTENNA;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 50949114195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2008.4463491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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