Experimental validation of performance limits and design guidelines for small antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-19

  Sievenpiper, Daniel F ^a   Dawson, David C ^b   Jacob, Minu M ^a   Kanar, Tumay ^a   Kim, Sanghoon ^a   Long, Jiang ^a   Quarfoth, Ryan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; dielectric resonator antenna; efficiency; fractal; metamaterial; planar antenna; quality factor; slot antenna; small antenna

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FACTORS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DESIGN RULES; DESIGN TRADEOFF; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA; ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE DATA; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PLANAR ANTENNAS; QUALITY FACTOR; SMALL ANTENNA; SMALL ANTENNA DESIGN; THEORETICAL DESIGN; THEORETICAL LIMITS; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ASPECT RATIO; BANDWIDTH; DESIGN; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; EFFICIENCY; FRACTALS; METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PERMITTIVITY; SPHERES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 84855417096     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2167938     Document Type: Article

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