Electrically small metamaterial-based antennas -have we seen any real practical benefits?

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 866-869

  Ikonen, Pekka ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT; APPLICATION EXAMPLES;

METAMATERIALS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 70349866418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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