A frequency-reconfigurable quasi-Yagi dipole antenna

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 883-886

  Cai, Yong ^a   Guo, Y Jay ^a   Weily, Andrew R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Endfire antennas; reconfigurable antenna; varactors

Indexed keywords

BIASING CIRCUIT; BIASING VOLTAGES; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; ELECTRICAL LENGTH; END-FIRE; ENDFIRE ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY-TUNING; FRONT TO BACK RATIO; H-PLANES; HIGH GAIN; MEASURED RESULTS; MICROSTRIPES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; STRIP LINE; TRUNCATED GROUND PLANE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; TUNING; VARACTORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77957575458     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2073436     Document Type: Article

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