Reduced-size UWB uniplanar tapered slot antennas without and with corrugations

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 830-836

  Wang, Yifan ^a   Bakar, Aslina ^a   Bialkowski, Marek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

directivity; radiation pattern; slot antenna; ultra wideband antenna

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVE PROPERTY; DIRECTIVE RADIATION; DIRECTIVITY; EM SIMULATIONS; IMPEDANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PULSE DISTORTION; PULSE TRANSMISSION; RADIATION PATTERN; RADIATION PATTERNS; REDUCED SIZE; TAPERED SLOT ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; RADIATION; SLOT ANTENNAS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 79952000925     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: 10982760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.25878     Document Type: Article

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