Planar Artificial Magnetic Conductors and Patch Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2704-2712

  Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Von Hagen, Juürgen ^a,b   Younis, Marwan ^a,b   Fischer, Christian ^a,b   Wiesbeck, Werner ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture coupled patch array; Parallel plate mode; Patch antenna; Perfect electric conductor (PEC); Perfect magnetic conductors (PMC); Reflection coefficient; Sidelobe suppression

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT REFLECTION; SURFACE WAVES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PERFECT MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS (PMC);

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0142063033     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.817550     Document Type: Article

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