Design of compact quadruple inverted-F antenna with circular polarization for GPS receiver

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1503-1510

  Son, Wang Ik ^a   Lim, Won Gyu ^b   Lee, Moon Que ^c   Min, Sang Bo ^d   Yu, Jong Won ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

^c University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^d Actenna Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; Four port antenna matching method; GPS receiver antenna; Quadruple inverted F antenna

Indexed keywords

3-DB BEAMWIDTH; ANTENNA MATCHING; AXIAL RATIO; FEED NETWORKS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; GPS RECEIVERS; INVERTED-F ANTENNA; MULTI-LAYERED; MUTUAL COUPLING; OPTIMUM MATCHING; PEAK GAIN; QUADRUPLE INVERTED-F ANTENNA; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RIGHT-HAND CIRCULAR POLARIZATIONS;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; POLARIZATION;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 77951994930     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2044344     Document Type: Article

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