Linear array of woodpile EBG sectoral horn antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2263-2274

  Weily, Andrew R ^a   Esselle, Karu P ^a   Bird, Trevor S ^a,b   Sanders, Barry C ^a,c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Array antenna; Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) antenna; Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) material; Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) waveguide; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Horn antenna; Terahertz; Three dimensional (3 D) photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG) ANTENNA; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG) MATERIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG) WAVEGUIDE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 33747594757     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.879181     Document Type: Article

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