A reconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devices

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-43

  Abutarboush, Hattan F ^a   Nilavalan, R ^a   Cheung, S W ^b   Nasr, Karim M ^c   Peter, Thomas ^a   Budimir, Djuradj ^d   Al Raweshidy, Hamed ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C slot; cognitive radio; patch antenna; reconfigurable antenna; slot antenna; small antenna; switched antenna; wideband antenna

Indexed keywords

C-SLOT; COGNITIVE RADIO; PATCH ANTENNA; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA; SMALL ANTENNA; SWITCHED ANTENNA; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 84855469534     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2167925     Document Type: Article

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