Metamaterial covers over a small aperture

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1632-1643

  Alù, Andrea ^a,b   Bilotti, Filiberto ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b   Vegni, Lucio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture coupling; Aperture enhancement; Leaky wave; Metamaterials; Polariton; Sub wavelength aperture

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MECHANISMS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

APERTURE COUPLING; APERTURE ENHANCEMENT; LEAKY WAVE; METAMATERIALS; POLARITON; SUB-WAVELENGTH APERTURE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 33745189621     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.875470     Document Type: Article

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