Analysis and design of sub-wavelength resonant cavity type 2-D leaky-wave antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2817-2825

  Kelly, James R ^a   Kokkinos, Titos ^a   Feresidis, Alexandros P ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic conductor; Finite difference time domain method; High gain antennas; Leaky wave antennas (LWAs); Resonant cavities; Sub wavelength resonators

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; HIGH-GAIN ANTENNAS; LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS (LWAS); RESONANT CAVITIES; SUB-WAVELENGTH RESONATORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 51749121265     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.928791     Document Type: Article

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