The magnetoelectric dipolea wideband antenna for base stations in mobile communications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2297-2307

  Luk, Kwai Man ^a   Wu, Biqun ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Broadradio Technologies Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Base station antennas; complementary antennas; dipole antennas; L probe patch antennas; magnetoelectric dipoles; patch antennas; wideband antennas

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC GROUNDING; LOOP ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; PROBES; SLOT ANTENNAS;

BASE STATION ANTENNAS; COMPLEMENTARY ANTENNAS; L-PROBE PATCH ANTENNA; MAGNETO-ELECTRIC DIPOLES; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862687991     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2187039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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