Wideband, lowloss, low-cost, quasi-TEM metamaterial-based local waveguides in air gaps between parallel metal plates

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 588-591

  Kildal, Per Simon ^a   Rajo Iglesias, Eva ^b   Alfonso, Esperanza ^c   Valero, Alejandro ^c   Zaman, Ashraf Uz ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; AIR-GAPS; BED OF NAILS; CO-DESIGNS; COAXIAL CONNECTORS; CUT-OFF; DISPERSION DIAGRAMS; HIGH IMPEDANCE SURFACE; LOCAL WAVE; LOW LOSS; METAL PARTS; METAL PIN; METAL SURFACES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARALLEL METAL PLATES; PARALLEL PLATES; QUASI-TEM; STOP-BANDS; WIDE-BAND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METALS; METAMATERIALS; PLASMAS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEXTURES; WAVEGUIDES;

PLATE METAL;

EID: 72849133628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEAA.2009.5297361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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