Near-field focusing with a corrugated surface

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 421-424

  Imani, Mohammadreza F ^a   Grbic, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrugated surface; Diffraction limit; Focusing; Metamaterials; Near field

Indexed keywords

BEAM WIDTHS; CORRUGATED SURFACES; DIFFRACTION LIMIT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; METALLIC SURFACE; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING; NEAR-FIELD PATTERN; NEAR-FIELD PROBING; NON-CONTACT SENSING; SINGLE SLIT; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; METAMATERIALS; WAVEGUIDES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 70349526161     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2021495     Document Type: Article

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