Experimental demonstration of self-collimation in low-index-contrast photonic crystals in the millimeter-wave regime

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1362-1367

  Lu, Zhaolin ^a   Schuetz, Christopher A ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Chen, Caihua ^a   Behrmann, Gregory P ^b   Prather, Dannis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b EM PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave (MMW); MMW imaging; Photonic crystal (PhC); Self collimation; Waveguiding

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CRYSTALS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

MILLIMETER WAVE (MMW); MMW IMAGING; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PHC); SELF-COLLIMATION; WAVEGUIDING;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 18744406760     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845769     Document Type: Article

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