Performance and analysis of Folded Coplanar Waveguide Antenna

Ashutosh Singh Department of wireless Communication and computing ashutosh_singh@iiit.ac.in Meenakshi Singh Wireless Communication and Computing Indian Institute of Information Technolog Allaha!ad" India iwc#$%&$#$@iiita.ac.in

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