Planar circularly symmetric EBG structures for reducing surface waves in printed antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3210-3218

  Llombart, Nuria ^a,b   Neto, Andrea ^a   Gerini, Giampiero ^a   de Maagt, Peter ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circular structures; Dispersion diagrams; Electromagnetic band gap (EBG); Printed antennas; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DISPERSION (WAVES); GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; POLES AND ZEROS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SURFACE WAVES;

CIRCULAR STRUCTURES; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP (EBG); PRINTED ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 27644455521     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.856365     Document Type: Article

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