Dielectric-resonator-based composite right/left-handed transmission lines and their application to leaky wave antenna

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2259-2269

  Ueda, Tetsuya ^a   Michishita, Naobumi ^b   Akiyama, Masahiro ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^c  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric resonator; Leaky wave antenna; Periodic structures; Rectangular waveguides

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC LINES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; POWER TRANSMISSION; RESONATORS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CELL STRUCTURES; COMPLEX EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITIES; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; ENDFIRE; FIRE FREQUENCIES; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA; LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPEN MESHES; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; SCANNING ANGLES; STEERING ANGLES; TRANSMISSION LINES; WIDE-BEAM;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 54049142385     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2003524     Document Type: Article

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