Low-profile folded monopoles with embedded planar metamaterial phase-shifting lines

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2997-3008

  Kokkinos, Titos ^a,b   Feresidis, Alexandros P ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Folded monopoles; Low profile antennas; Magneto dielectrics; Metamaterials; Monopole antennas; Spiral resonators

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICALLY LARGE; FOLDED MONOPOLE; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; GROUND PLANE SIZE; GROUND PLANES; INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED; LOW PROFILE; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ANTENNA; OPERATING PRINCIPLES; PHASE-SHIFTING; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; RADIATION PATTERNS; SPIRAL ELEMENTS; SPIRAL RESONATORS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MAGNETOS; METAMATERIALS; RESONATORS; SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 76149123176     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2028605     Document Type: Article

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