Wire Antennas

Wire Antennas

Author(s): Christos G. Christodoulou, Parveen Wahid

Published: 2001

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.416262.ch3

Abstract

The dipole antenna, a linear wire antenna, is the most basic type of a radiator. A center-fed dipole of length l consists of two linear conductors of length l/2 separated by a small gap. Dipole antennas can be grouped as infinitesimal dipoles, small dipoles, and finite-length dipoles.