Switchable quad-band antennas for cognitive radio base station applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1468-1476

  Wu, Terence ^a   Li, Rong Lin ^a,b   Eom, Soon Young ^e   Myoung, Seong Sik ^a,c,d   Lim, Kyutae ^a   Laskar, Joy ^a   Jeon, Soon Ik ^e   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^d SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^e Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Base station antenna; Cognitive radio; Quad band antenna; Switchable antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; ANTENNA ELEMENT; ANTENNA GAINS; BAND OPERATIONS; BASE STATION ANTENNAS; BASE STATION APPLICATIONS; COGNITIVE RADIO; DIRECTIONAL RADIATION; ELEMENT ANTENNA; GAIN VALUES; MEMS SWITCHES; OPERATING FREQUENCY; SWITCHABLE; SWITCHABLE ANTENNAS; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; BASE STATIONS; FREQUENCY BANDS; RADIO; WIMAX;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77952000978     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2044472     Document Type: Article

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