EM modeling of surfaces with stop or go characteristics - Artificial magnetic conductors and soft and hard surfaces

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-40

  Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Kishk, Ahmed ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP SURFACES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; HARD SURFACES; PERFECT MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0037967146     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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