A comparison of the cylindrical folded helix Q to the gustafsson limit

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2554-2557

  Best, Steven R ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ARBITRARY SHAPE; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; IMPEDANCE MATCH; LENGTH TO DIAMETER RATIO; LOWER BOUNDS; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PLANAR-SHAPED; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; SMALL ANTENNA DESIGN; SPHERICAL VOLUME;

CONTROL THEORY; DESIGN; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SPHERES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349852731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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