Reinforced continuous carbon-fiber composites using multi-wall carbon nanotubes for wideband antenna applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2451-2456

  Mehdipour, Aidin ^a   Trueman, Christopher W ^a   Sebak, Abdel Razik ^a   Rosca, Iosif D ^a   Hoa, Suong V ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna; radiating element; reinforced carbon fiber composites; wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; ANTENNA STRUCTURES; CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; MICROWAVE STUDIOS; MONOPOLE ANTENNA; MULTI-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; RADIATING ELEMENTS; RADIATION PATTERNS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; RESULTING MATERIALS; TIME DOMAIN; ULTRA WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIDEBAND ANTENNA; WIDEBAND ANTENNAS; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

CARBON FIBERS; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FIBERS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 77954560636     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2048862     Document Type: Article

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