Broadband, efficient, electrically small metamaterial-inspired antennas facilitated by active near-field resonant parasitic elements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 318-327

  Jin, Peng ^a   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active antennas; Bandwidth; Electrically small antennas; Metamaterials; Parasitic antennas; Q factor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ANTENNAS; ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; BANDWIDTH PERFORMANCE; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CIRCUIT MODELS; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; HFSS SIMULATION; INTERNAL MATCHING; LUMPED ELEMENT; NARROW BANDWIDTH; NEAR-FIELD; PARASITIC ANTENNAS; PARASITIC ELEMENT; Q-FACTORS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES;

BANDWIDTH; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INDUCTANCE; METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 76849117698     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2037708     Document Type: Article

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