Metamaterial bilayers for enhancement of wave transmission through a small hole in a flat perfectly conducting screen

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 3163-3166

  Alù, Andrea ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b   Vegni, Lucio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CORRUGATED MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POWER TRANSMISSION; RESONANCE; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

METAMATERIAL BILAYERS; PERFLECTLY ELECTRIC CONDUCTING (PEC) SCREENS; SURFACE PLASMONS; WAVE NUMBERS;

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 4544283685     PISSN: 15223965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/aps.2004.1332050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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