Microstrip antenna gain enhancement by metamaterial radome with more subwavelength holes

APMC 2009 - Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 790-792

  Chen, Kai Shyung ^a   Lin, Ken Huang ^a   Su, Hsin Lung ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Epsilon near zero (ENZ); Metamaterial; Radome; Split Ring Resonator (SRR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; CROSS STRUCTURES; EPSILON NEAR ZERO (ENZ); GHZ BAND; HIGH GAIN; JERUSALEM; MAXIMUM GAIN; PATCH ANTENNA; RADIATION PATTERNS; REFRACTION INDEX; SPLITRING RESONATORS; SUB-WAVELENGTH HOLES; SUPERSTRATES; THREE-LAYER;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); METAMATERIALS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADOMES; RING GAGES;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77950655941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2009.5384268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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