Application of Double Negative Materials to Increase the Power Radiated by Electrically Small Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 I, 2003, Pages 2626-2640

  Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a   Kipple, Allison D ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna theory; Antennas; Complex media; Dipole antennas; Electrically small antennas; Electromagentic fields

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; INCLUSIONS; PERMITTIVITY;

NEGATIVE PERMITTIVITY;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0142126340     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.817561     Document Type: Article

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