Periodic FDTD analysis of leaky-wave structures and applications to the analysis of negative-refractive-index leaky-wave antennas

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1619-1630

  Kokkinos, Titos ^a,b,c   Sarris, Costas D ^a,b   Eleftheriades, George V ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Antennas and Propagation Society

Author keywords

Complex propagation constants; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Leaky wave antennas (LWAs); Negative refractive index (NRI); Periodic boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROPAGATION CONSTANTS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS (LWAS); NEGATIVE-REFRACTIVE-INDEX (NRI);

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 33645940270     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.871367     Document Type: Article

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