Basic properties and design principles of UWB antennas

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 372-385

  Wiesbeck, Werner ^a   Adamiuk, Grzegorz ^a   Sturm, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ultra wide band (UWB); UWB antenna characterization; UWB link; UWB transfer functions

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; RADAR ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA STRUCTURES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; PARAMETERS CHARACTERIZING; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; RADIATION PRINCIPLE; ULTRA WIDE BAND RADIATIONS; UWB ANTENNA; UWB LINK;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 62949200518     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2008838     Document Type: Article

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