A method for improving the efficiency of transparent film antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 753-756

  Song, Hyok Jae ^a   Hsu, Tsung Yuan ^a   Sievenpiper, Daniel F ^a   Hsu, Hui Pin ^a   Schaffner, James ^a   Yasan, Eray ^b  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b OnStar by GM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aght; Antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Efficiency; Transparent antennas

Indexed keywords

AGHT; COATED FILMS; CONDUCTIVE COATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; MAXIMUM GAIN; METALLIZATIONS; NARROW STRIPS; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; SELECTIVE ANTENNA; TRANSPARENT ANTENNAS; TRANSPARENT FILMS; WAVE METHOD;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; STRIP METAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349483649     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2008107     Document Type: Article

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