High gain and low cost differentially fed circularly polarized planar aperture antenna for broadband millimeter-wave applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 33-42

  Bisharat, Dia'aaldin J ^a   Liao, Shaowei ^a   Xue, Quan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Aperture Antenna; Broadband; Circular Polarization (CP); Differential Feeding; High Gain; Millimeter Wave (mm Wave); Planar Antenna.

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COSTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

APERTURE ANTENNAS; BROADBAND; HIGH GAIN; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); PLANAR ANTENNAS;

ANTENNA FEEDERS;

EID: 84973598911     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2499750     Document Type: Article

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