Cavity-backed miniature wideband UHF circular polarized antenna with textured dielectrics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3586-3592

  Psychoudakis, Dimitris ^a   Volakis, John L ^a   Wing, Zach ^b   Halloran, John W ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Dielectric loaded antennas; Electrically small antennas; UHF antennas

Indexed keywords

CAVITY BACKED ANTENNA; CIRCULAR POLARIZED ANTENNAS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; DIELECTRIC LOADED ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC LOADINGS; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; HIGH PERMITTIVITY DIELECTRIC; METALLIC STRIPS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PROTOTYPE ANTENNAS; SHAPE DESIGNS; SIDE EFFECT; SMALL SIZE; UHF ANTENNAS; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYLINDRICAL ANTENNAS; DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); PERMITTIVITY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 77955216892     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886474     Document Type: Article

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