Uni-planar CPW-fed slot launchers for efficient TM0 surface-wave excitation

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 1234-1240

  Hammad, Hany F ^a   Antar, Yahia M M ^b   Freundorfer, Al P ^a   Mahmoud, Samir F ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Power combiners; Surface wave launchers; Yagi Uda coplanar slot antennas

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SLOT ANTENNAS;

SURFACE WAVE EXCITATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0242669927     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.809668     Document Type: Article

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