Modal propagation and excitation on a wire-medium slab

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1112-1124

  Burghignoli, Paolo ^a,b   Lovat, Giampiero ^a,b   Capolino, Filippo ^a,c   Jackson, David R ^a,d   Wilton, Donald R ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaky modes; Metamaterials; Near field; Planar slab; Wire medium

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC WIRE; MODAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

LEAKY MODES; METAMATERIALS; NEAR FIELDS; PLANAR SLABS; WIRE MEDIUM;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 44049085114     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.921657     Document Type: Article

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