Artificial magnetic conductor surfaces and their application to low-profile high-gain planar antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 209-215

  Feresidis, Alexandros P ^a   Goussetis, George ^a   Wang, Shenhong ^a   Vardaxoglou, John C ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrays; Artificial magnetic conductors; Electromagnetic bandgap structures; High gain antennas; Low profile antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SUBSTRATES;

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES; HIGH GAIN ANTENNAS; LOW PROFILE ANTENNAS;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 13244252355     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.840528     Document Type: Article

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