Using the complex images method to analyze printed antennas in multilayer dielectric media

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 285-300

  Badawi, Ashraf ^a   Sebak, Abdel Razik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTILAYERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPLEX IMAGES METHOD; MULTILAYER DIELECTRIC MEDIA; PRINTED ANTENNAS; SOMMERFELD INTEGRALS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033893916     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939300X00798     Document Type: Article

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