Wideband circularly polarized AMC reflector backed aperture antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1456-1461

  Agarwal, Kush ^a   Nasimuddin, ^b   Alphones, Arokiaswami ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aperture antenna; artificial magnetic conductor reflector; circular polarization; low profile structure; unidirectional; wideband operation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FEEDERS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; REFLECTION;

APERTURE ANTENNAS; ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; LOW-PROFILE; UNIDIRECTIONAL; WIDEBAND OPERATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84874830417     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2227446     Document Type: Article

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