{"title":"Unfolding the History of the Folded Dipole [Historically Speaking]","authors":"Trevor S. Bird","doi":"10.1109/MAP.2025.3578899","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"One of the most common antenna elements is the folded dipole. It is used as the driving element in many television receiving arrays. It was invented in the 1930s by Philip S. Carter as television services came into operation. Subsequently, several people contributed to its refinement, including Rudolf Guertler. This article describes its invention and refinements made to it over the years and the backgrounds of Carter and Guertler.","PeriodicalId":13090,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine","volume":"67 4","pages":"82-92"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11128920/","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
One of the most common antenna elements is the folded dipole. It is used as the driving element in many television receiving arrays. It was invented in the 1930s by Philip S. Carter as television services came into operation. Subsequently, several people contributed to its refinement, including Rudolf Guertler. This article describes its invention and refinements made to it over the years and the backgrounds of Carter and Guertler.
最常见的天线元件之一是折叠偶极子。它被用作许多电视接收阵列中的驱动元件。它是由菲利普·s·卡特(Philip S. Carter)在20世纪30年代电视服务开始运作时发明的。随后,几个人对它的改进做出了贡献,包括Rudolf Guertler。这篇文章描述了它的发明和多年来对它的改进,以及卡特和格特勒的背景。
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