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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 48 Number 1, January 2000

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An Experimental Technique Used to Measure the Unloaded $Q$ of Microstrip Antennas

Steven J. Weiss and Walter K. Kahn

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Abstract:

This paper presents a scattering method for measuring the unloaded $Q$ of a prototype microstrip (patch) antenna structure without the need to implement connecting circuitry.

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