Power and Q of a horizontal dipole over a metamaterial coated conducting surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 684-690

  Hirvonen, Mervi ^a   Sten, Johan C E ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conducting surface; Dipole antenna; Q factor; Radiated power; Zero index materials

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; POWER QUALITY; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT;

MULTIPOLE FIELDS; ZERO-INDEX MATERIALS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 41649113173     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.916937     Document Type: Article

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