Frequency reconfigurable quasi-Yagi folded dipole antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2742-2747

  Qin, Pei Yuan ^a,b   Weily, Andrew R ^b   Guo, Y Jay ^b   Bird, Trevor S ^b   Liang, Chang Hong ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Folded dipole; planar antennas; quasi Yagi antenna; reconfigurable antennas

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; CONTINUOUS TUNING; CROSS-POLARIZATION LEVEL; ELECTRICAL LENGTH; END-FIRE; FOLDED DIPOLE ANTENNA; FOLDED DIPOLES; GHZ BAND; MEASURED RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PIN DIODE; PLANAR ANTENNAS; PLANAR QUASI-YAGI ANTENNA; QUASI-YAGI ANTENNA; RADIATION PATTERNS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; TUNABLE FREQUENCY; TUNING RANGES; VARACTOR DIODES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODES; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; TUNING; VARACTORS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77955444546     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2050455     Document Type: Article

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