Full-composite fractal antenna using carbon nanotubes for multiband wireless applications

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 891-894

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

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna; carbon nanotube (CNT) composites; fractal antennas; multiband antennas; radio frequency identification (RFID); wireless communication systems

Indexed keywords

900 MHZ; ANTENNA PATTERN; CUT OUT; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; FRACTAL ANTENNA; FRACTAL ANTENNAS; HIGH-PRECISION; MEASURED RESULTS; MICROWAVE STUDIOS; MULTIBAND; MULTIBAND ANTENNAS; RADIATION PATTERNS; SIERPINSKI FRACTALS; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES; WIRELESS APPLICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

ANTENNAS; BLUETOOTH; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FRACTALS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MILLING (MACHINING); MILLING MACHINES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; RESINS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77957585595     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2076342     Document Type: Article

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