Thickness reduction and performance enhancement of steerable square loop antenna using hybrid high impedance surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1477-1485

  Deo, Prafulla ^a   Mehta, Amit ^a   Mirshekar Syahkal, Dariush ^b   Massey, Peter J ^d   Nakano, Hisamatsu ^c  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Beam steering antennas; Electromagnetic band gap structures; High impedance surfaces; Square loop antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; BEAM-STEERING; BEAM-STEERING ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES; HIGH IMPEDANCE SURFACE; LOW PROFILE; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; RADIATION PATTERNS; SIDE LOBES; SQUARE LOOP; STEERABLE BEAMS; STRONG COUPLING; SUBSTRATE THICKNESS; TEST FREQUENCIES; THICKNESS REDUCTION;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; FREQUENCY BANDS; LOOP ANTENNAS; STEERABLE ANTENNAS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77951991619     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2044339     Document Type: Article

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