Wideband cavity-backed bowtie antenna with pattern improvement

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3850-3854

  Qu, Shi Wei ^a   Li, Jia Lin ^a   Xue, Quan ^a   Chan, Chi Hou ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bowtie antennas; Cavity backed antennas; Unidirectional patterns; Wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BOW TIES; BOWTIE ANTENNAS; CAVITY-BACKED ANTENNAS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; CIRCULAR RINGS; FREE-SPACE WAVELENGTHS; GROUND PLANES; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; MEASURED RESULTS; MICRO STRIPS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPERATING BANDS; PARALLEL-STRIP LINES; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; RADIATION PATTERN IMPROVEMENTS; RADIATION PATTERNS; STABLE RADIATIONS; UNIDIRECTIONAL PATTERNS; WIDE BANDS; WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 60149088054     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2007395     Document Type: Article

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