CRLH metamaterial leaky-wave and resonant antennas

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 25-39

  Caloz, Christophe ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^b   Rennings, Andre ^c  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Composite right left handed; Directive antennas; Leaky wave antennas; Metamaterials; Monopole antennas; Multifrequency antennas; Shaped beam antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; SCANNING;

BEAM STEERING; COMPOSITE RIGHT-/LEFT-HANDED; LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; MULTIFREQUENCY ANTENNAS; SHAPED BEAM ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 58649095886     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2008.4674709     Document Type: Article

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