Array factor approach of leaky-wave antennas and application to 1-D/2-D composite right/left-handed (CRLH) structures

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 274-276

  Caloz, Christophe ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Array factor; Composite right left handed (CRLH) structures; Leaky wave (LW) antennas; Metamaterials

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ARRAY FACTOR; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED (CRLH) STRUCTURES; LEAKY-WAVE (LW) ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 3042634510     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.828009     Document Type: Article

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