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Patch Antenna
N.H.Noordin, Wei Zhou, A.O.El-Rayis, N.Haridas, A.T.Erdogan and Tughrul Arslan
Advanced Smart Antenna Technologies Research Group, School of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JL, UK
Email: {N.Noordin, W.Zhou, A.El-Rayis, N.Haridas, Ahmet.Erdogan, T.Arslan}@ed.ac.uk
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support
from Universiti Malaysia Pahang and The Malaysian
Government.
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Figure 4. Simulated axial ratio of the proposed antenna
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radiating elements are of the same size. The measured