A widely tunable compact patch antenna

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 40-42

  Sheta, Abdel Fattah ^a   Mahmoud, Samir F ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Antennas for wireless; Compact antenna; Microstrip antenna; Reconfigurable antenna; Tunable antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GROUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

COMPACT ANTENNA; COMPACT PATCH ANTENNA; PIN DIODE SWITCHES; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; RECTANGULAR PATCH; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; TUNABLE ANTENNA; TUNABLE PATCH ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 67650018292     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.915796     Document Type: Article

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