Left-handed electromagnetic properties of split-ring resonator and wire loaded transmission line in a fin-line technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1451-1456

  Decoopman, Thibaut ^a,b   Marteau, Aurélien ^a   Lheurette, Eric ^a   Vanbésien, Olivier ^a   Lippens, Didier ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Fin line; Left handed (LH) materials; Metamaterials

Indexed keywords

FIN LINE; LEFT-HANDED (LH) MATERIALS; METAMATERIALS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHASE DIAGRAMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

RESONATORS;

EID: 33645941546     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.871356     Document Type: Article

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