Metamaterial insulator enabled superdirective array

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1074-1085

  Buell, Kevin ^a   Mosallaei, Hossein ^a,b   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna array; Antenna array mutual coupling; Electromagnetic bandgap materials (EBG); Insulators; Meta material

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

METAMATERIAL INSULATOR; MUTUAL COUPLING; SIDELOBE LEVEL; SUPERDIRECTIVE ARRAY;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 34247129241     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.893373     Document Type: Article

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