A novel broad beamwidth conformal antenna on unmanned aerial vehicle

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 196-199

  Liu, Zong Quan ^a   Zhang, Ying Song ^a   Qian, Zuping ^a,b   Han, Zhen Ping ^a   Ni, Weimin ^a  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Broad beamwidth; conformal; low profile; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); vertical polarization

Indexed keywords

3-DB BEAMWIDTH; BROAD BEAMWIDTH; COMMUNICATION ANTENNAS; CONFORMAL; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; HORIZONTAL PLANES; L-SHAPED; LOW PROFILE; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; VERTICAL PLANE; VERTICAL POLARIZATION; WIDE BEAMWIDTH;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; POLARIZATION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84859059436     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2187321     Document Type: Article

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