Enhanced bandwidth artificial magnetic ground plane for low-profile antennas

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 289-292

  Yousefi, Leila ^a   Mohajer Iravani, Baharak ^a   Ramahi, Omar M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structure; Magneto dielectric materials; Perfect magnetic conductor (PMC)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC GROUND PLANES; CELL SIZE; EBG STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES; IN-PHASE; LOW PROFILE; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNAS; NEW STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERFECT MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; SMALL ANTENNA; VOLTAGE STANDING-WAVE RATIO; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOS; SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 51149086454     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2007.895282     Document Type: Article

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