Optimized monopole and dipole antennas for UWB asset tag location systems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2896-2904

  Dumoulin, Antoine ^a   John, Matthias ^a   Ammann, Max J ^a   McEvoy, Patrick ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dipole antennas; optimization methods; time domain measurements; ultra wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED ENERGIES; LOCATION SYSTEMS; MONOPOLE AND DIPOLE; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PULSE DISPERSION; RADIO APPLICATIONS; TIME DOMAIN; TIME DOMAIN MEASUREMENT; ULTRA WIDE-BAND ANTENNAS;

OPTIMIZATION;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84861867213     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2194686     Document Type: Article

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