Broadband circularly polarized annular-ring microstrip antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2474-2477

  Guo, Yong Xin ^a   Bian, Lei ^b   Shi, Xiang Quan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; Microstrip antennas; Wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO; CIRCULAR PATCH; CIRCULAR-POLARIZATION; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; EFFECTIVE BANDWIDTH; PATCH ANTENNA; PROBE FEED; RING ANTENNAS; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND ANTENNAS;

BANDWIDTH; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; POLARIZATION;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 68949216443     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2024584     Document Type: Article

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