Extremely low-profile, single-arm, wideband spiral antenna radiating a circularly polarized wave

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1511-1520

  Nakano, Hisamatsu ^a   Satake, Ryohei ^a   Yamauchi, Junji ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; Low profile antenna; Single arm spiral; Wideband antenna

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; ANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS; AXIAL RATIO; BALUN CIRCUITS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; DESIGN FREQUENCIES; FEED SYSTEMS; LOW PROFILE; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNAS; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; RADIATION PATTERNS; SINGLE ARM SPIRAL; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; POLARIZATION; SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77951979426     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2044345     Document Type: Article

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