Enabling RF/microwave devices and antennas using Negative-refractive-index Transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterials

2007 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference, LAPC 2007 Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 13-18

  Eleftheriades, George V ^a,b   Islam, Rubaiyat ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC LINES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ARBITRARY COUPLING; METAMATERIALS; MINIATURIZATION; SHUNT INDUCTORS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 34548775632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LAPC.2007.367423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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