A coplanar reconfigurable folded slot antenna without bias network for WLAN applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 1057-1060

  Anagnostou, Dimitrios E ^a   Gheethan, Ahmad A ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folded single slot antenna; P i n diodes; Reconfig urable antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; BIAS LINE; BIAS NETWORKS; FOLDED SINGLE SLOT ANTENNA; FOLDED-SLOT ANTENNA; MAXIMUM GAIN; METAL STRIPS; PIN DIODE; RADIATION PATTERNS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIG-URABLE ANTENNAS; RECONFIGURABLE DESIGNS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RETURN LOSS; SIMULATED RESULTS; WLAN APPLICATIONS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STRIP METAL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 77953725321     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2031989     Document Type: Article

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