Employment of artificial magnetic metamaterials to effectively reduce the back-lobe of patch antennas

Electromagnetics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 513-522

  Bilotti, Filiberto ^a   Vegni, Claudio ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic materials; Back radiation; Metamaterials; Patch antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPLOYMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONATORS; RING GAGES; SURFACE WAVES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC MATERIALS; BACK-RADIATION; FRONT-TO-BACK RATIO; MAGNETIC INCLUSIONS; MAGNETIC METAMATERIALS; METAMATERIALS; MICRO STRIPS; MULTIPLE SPLIT-RING RESONATORS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPERATING FREQUENCIES; PATCH ANTENNAS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SPLIT-RING RESONATORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 51849099130     PISSN: 02726343     EISSN: 1532527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02726340802322544     Document Type: Article

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