A broadband center-fed circular patch-ring antenna with a monopole like radiation pattern

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 789-792

  Al Zoubi, Asem ^a   Yang, Fan ^a   Kishk, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular ring; Circular patch antenna (CPA); Microstrip antenna; Monopole

Indexed keywords

A CENTERS; ANNULAR RING; CIRCULAR MICROSTRIP PATCHES; CIRCULAR PATCH ANTENNA (CPA); CIRCULAR PATCHES; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; LOW PROFILES; MEASUREMENT AND SIMULATIONS; MONOPOLE; RADIATION PATTERNS; RETURN LOSS; RING ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 65549087669     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2011406     Document Type: Article

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