Design of planar artificial magnetic conductor ground plane using frequency-selective surfaces for frequencies below 1 GHz

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 951-954

  De Cos, M E ^a   Heras, F Las ^a   Franco, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b TTT SGC Telecom Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); Electromagnetic band gap (EBG); Frequency selective surface (FSS); Perfect magnetic conductor (PMC); Radio frequency identification (RFID); Reflection coefficient; Tag antenna

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND-GAP (EBG); FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SURFACES; PERFECT MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; TAG ANTENNA;

DESIGN; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; REFLECTION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 77949354505     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2029133     Document Type: Article

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