Subwavelength planar leaky-wave components with metamaterial bilayers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 3 II, 2007, Pages 882-891

  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

Leaky wave antennas; Leaky waves; Metamaterials; Subwavelength structures

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 34047195247     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.891844     Document Type: Article

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