Subwavelength focusing using a negative-refractive-index transmission line lens

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 186-189

  Grbic, Anthony ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffraction limit; Evanescent waves; Left handed media; Metamaterials; Negative refractive index

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIFFRACTION LIMIT; EVANESCENT WAVES; LEFT-HANDED MEDIA; METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LENSES;

EID: 0742329708     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2003.819042     Document Type: Article

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