A broadband omnidirectional circularly polarized antenna

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2363-2370

  Quan, Xulin ^a   Li, Ronglin ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband antenna; circularly polarized (CP) antenna; mobile communications; omnidirectional antenna

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); TRACKING (POSITION);

BROAD-BAND ANTENNA; CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNAS; CONDUCTING CYLINDER; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING CIRCUITS; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; OMNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION PATTERN;

OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 84877294926     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2237532     Document Type: Article

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