Research Article

Backward Surface Wave Propagation and Radiation along a One-Dimensional Folded Cylindrical Helix Array

Table 2

Comparison between our antenna and other small antenna arrays in the literatures.

ReferenceNumber of elementsSpacingHeightGainF/BBW

Our antenna40.1380.0610.3 dBi12.8 dB0.75%
[14]30.110.2757.14 dBi8.6 dB2.28%
[15]30.060.0928.5 dBi7 dB2.7%
[16]30.090.18.43 dBi6.63 dB1.2%
[17]30.0530.219.9 dBin/a12.44%