Microstrip antenna with corrugated ground plane surface as a sensor for landmines detection

Progress In Electromagnetics Research B

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 259-278

  Zainud Deen, S H ^a   Badr, M E ^a   El Deen, E ^a   Awadalla, K H ^a   Sharshar, H A ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); EXPLOSIVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; SLOT ANTENNAS;

FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); GROUND PLANES; GROUND SURFACES; LAND MINE; MICROSTRIP PATCH ARRAYS; MUTUAL COUPLING;

LANDMINE DETECTION;

EID: 42949136312     PISSN: 19376472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/pierb07112702     Document Type: Article

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