Planar soft surfaces and their application to mutual coupling reduction

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3852-3859

  Rajo Iglesias, Eva ^a,b   Quevedo Teruel, Óscar ^a   Inclán Sánchez, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Mutual coupling; Soft surface; Surface wave

Indexed keywords

BAND GAPS; MUTUAL COUPLING; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PATCH ANTENNA; SOFT SURFACE; STOP-BANDS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 72649099890     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2024226     Document Type: Article

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