A wideband circularly polarized conical beam from a two-arm spiral antenna excited in phase

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3518-3525

  Nakano, Hisamatsu ^a   Oyanagi, Hiroshi ^a   Yamauchi, Junji ^a  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conical pattern; in phase excitation; low profile wideband antenna; spiral antenna

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS; AXIAL RATIO; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CONICAL BEAMS; CONICAL PATTERN; DESIGN FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY RANGES; IN-PHASE; LOW PROFILE; RADIATION EFFICIENCY; SPIRAL STRUCTURES; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE; WIDE-BAND;

SPIRAL ANTENNAS; SUPERALLOYS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 80053630771     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2163759     Document Type: Article

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