Planar annular ring antennas with multilayer self-biased NiCo-ferrite films loading

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 648-655

  Yang, Guo Min ^a   Xing, Xing ^a   Daigle, Andrew ^a   Obi, Ogheneyunume ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Lou, Jing ^a   Stoute, S ^a   Naishadham, Krishna ^b   Sun, Nian X ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular ring antennas; Antenna miniaturization; Magnetic films; Self biased ferrite films

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR RING ANTENNAS; ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA GAINS; ANTENNA MINIATURIZATION; DOWN SHIFTS; FERRITE FILMS; GIGAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; MICROSTRIP RING; NONMAGNETICS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SELF-BIASED; TUNING STUBS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERRITE; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETISM; METALLIC FILMS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; MULTILAYER FILMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77749343150     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2039295     Document Type: Article

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