Demonstration of negative refraction in a cutoff parallel-plate waveguide loaded with 2-D square lattice of dielectric resonators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1280-1287

  Ueda, Tetsuya ^a,b,c   Lai, Anthony ^a,b   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dielectric resonators; Lenses; Parallel plate waveguides; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT-CIRCUIT MODELS; ISOTROPIC CHARACTERISTICS; MACROSCOPIC BEHAVIOR; PARALLEL-PLATE WAVEGUIDES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

REFRACTION;

EID: 34250357679     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.897753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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