Radiation and scattering from infinite periodic printed antennas with inhomogeneous media

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1641-1650

  Tsay, Wen Jiunn ^a,b   Pozar, David M ^a  

^a Anritsu Company USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Microstrip antennas; Nonhomogeneous media

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA RADIATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; SUBSTRATES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

EQUIVALENT VOLUME POLARIZATION CURRENTS; INFINITE PERIODIC PRINTED ANTENNAS; NONHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032206280     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.736615     Document Type: Article

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