Broadband, miniaturized stacked-patch antennas for L-band operation based on magneto-dielectric substrates

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2817-2822

  Namin, Farhad ^a   Spence, Thomas G ^b   Werner, Douglas H ^a   Semouchkina, Elena ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna miniaturization; genetic algorithms; magneto dielectric material; stacked patch antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; ANTENNA MINIATURIZATION; BAND OPERATIONS; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; FABRICATION METHODOLOGY; FULL WAVE ANALYSIS; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; OPTIMAL DESIGN PARAMETERS; PATCH ANTENNA; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY AND PERMEABILITY;

DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAGNETOS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; SUBSTRATES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 77956365644     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2052574     Document Type: Article

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