Compact Six-Sector Antenna Employing Three Intersecting Dual-Beam Microstrip Yagi-Uda Arrays With Common Director

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3055-3062

  Honma, Naoki ^a   Seki, Tomohiro ^a   Nishikawa, Keniiro ^a   Tsunekawa, Koichi ^a   Sawaya, Kunio ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Microstrip antennas; mobile antennas; multisector antenna; small antennas; Yagi Uda arrays

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008052677     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.883980     Document Type: Article

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