A near-field probe for subwavelength-focused imaging

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 551-558

  Markley, Loïc ^a   Eleftheriades, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Near field focusing; Near field imaging; Subwavelength focusing; Subwavelength imaging

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROBE; DIPOLE PROBES; FOCAL PLANE; FOCAL SPOT; NEAR FIELD IMAGING; NEAR FIELD PROBES; NEAR-FIELD ANTENNAS; NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING; RASTER SCANNING; RESOLUTION BANDWIDTH; RETURN LOSS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; WIRE LOOP;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; PROBES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 77949540018     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2040409     Document Type: Article

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