Combinations of low/high permittivity and/or permeability substrates for highly directive planar metamaterial antennas

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 177-183

  Lovat, G ^a   Burghignoli, P ^a   Capolino, F ^b   Jackson, D R ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CONSTANTS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; DIPOLE SOURCES; ELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; HIGH-DIRECTIVITY; LEAKY WAVES; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PENCIL BEAM; POWER DENSITIES; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; METAMATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 44449086819     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map:20050353     Document Type: Article

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