A Simple Printed Cross-Dipole Antenna with Modified Feeding Structure and Dual-Layer Printed Reflector for Direction

Kyei Anim1, Bonghyuk Park2, Hui Dong Lee2

  • 1Electronics Engineering Department, Hanbat National University, Daejeon 34158, Korea.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|September 10, 2021
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