Negative refraction and focusing in hyperbolic transmission-line periodic grids

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 396-403

  Eleftheriades, George V ^a   Siddiqui, Omar F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Focusing; Hyperbolic dispersion; Metamaterials; Microstrip transmission lines (TLs); Negative refraction; Periodic structures; Plasma; Resonance cones

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMULTIPLEXING; FOCUSING; LIGHT REFRACTION; MICROSTRIP LINES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MULTIPLEXING; PLASMAS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; METAMATERIALS; MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINES (TL); NEGATIVE REFRACTION; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; RESONANCE CONES;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 12344257151     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.839944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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