Coupling reduction between dipole antenna elements by using a planar meta-surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 383-394

  Sáenz, Elena ^a,b   Ederra, Iñigo ^a   Gonzalo, Ramón ^a   Pivnenko, Sergey ^c   Breinbjerg, Olav ^c   de Maagt, Peter ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dipole antenna array; Meta surface; Mutual coupling

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENTS; DIPOLE ANTENNA ARRAY; FREE SPACES; META-SURFACE; METAL STRIPS; MUTUAL COUPLING; NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS; RADIATION PATTERNS; RADIATION PERFORMANCE; SUPERSTRATE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; STRIP METAL;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 65249142706     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2011249     Document Type: Article

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