Photonic band-gap materials for high-gain printed circuit antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 185-187

  Yang, Hung Yu David ^a   Alexopoulos, Nicolaos G ^a   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a  

^a University of Illinois Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Photonic band gap; Printed antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SUBSTRATES; VECTORS;

PHOTONIC BAND GAP (PBG) MATERIALS; RECIPROCITY THEOREM; VECTOR INTEGRAL EQUATION ANALYSIS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0030736440     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.554261     Document Type: Article

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