Antenna design with the use of photonic band-gap materials as all-dielectric planar reflectors

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 169-174

  Kesler, Morris P ^a   Maloney, James G ^a   Shirley, Brian L ^a   Smith, Glenn S ^b  

^a GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas; FDFD; FDTD; Photonic band gap materials; Reflectors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; FINITE THICKNESS SLAB; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PLANE WAVE REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; REFLECTION PLANE CONCEPT; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENT;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0030108449     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(199603)11:4<169::AID-MOP1>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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