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Conformal Antennas—A Short Survey

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Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications

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Conformal antennas (CA) have wide applications in several civil, commercial, and defence systems. They are the need hour and most essential in aircrafts and ships. Patch antennas are often considered as the better candidate for such CA. In this paper, a consolidated report on several conformal antenna types is presented. General study on the CA with mircrostrips is presented. The singly curved and doubly curved surfaces are considered for discussion.

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  1. Department of ECE, SRK Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, AP, India

    N. V. K. Maha Lakshmi

  2. Department of ECE, VR Siddhartha College of Engineering, Vijayawada, AP, India

    P. V. Subbaiah

  3. Department of ECE, University College of Engineering JNTU, Kakinada, AP, India

    A. M. Prasad

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  1. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain

    Jaume Anguera

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRMGPC, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vikrant Bhateja

  4. BVRIT Hyderabad College of Engineering for Women, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

    K.V.N. Sunitha

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Maha Lakshmi, N.V.K., Subbaiah, P.V., Prasad, A.M. (2018). Conformal Antennas—A Short Survey. In: Anguera, J., Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Sunitha, K. (eds) Microelectronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 471. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7329-8_91

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