Bandwidth enhancement of a microstrip-line-fed printed wide-slot antenna with a fractal-shaped slot

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2176-2179

  Chen, Wen Ling ^a   Wang, Guang Ming ^a   Zhang, Chen Xin ^a  

^a AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bandwidth enhancement; Fractal antenna; Microstrip line fed antenna; Slot antenna

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; FRACTAL ANTENNA; FRACTAL SLOT ANTENNAS; FRACTAL-SHAPE; GAIN BANDWIDTH; IMPEDANCE BANDWIDTHS; MICROSTRIP-LINE-FED ANTENNA; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; OPERATING FREQUENCY; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; WIDE-SLOT; WIDE-SLOT ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; FRACTALS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 67949099066     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2021974     Document Type: Article

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