Low-profile directive millimeter-wave antennas using free-formed three-dimensional (3-d) electromagnetic bandgap structures

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 1, 2009, Pages 2893-2903

  Lee, Yoonjae ^a   Lu, Xuesong ^b   Hao, Yang ^a   Yang, Shoufeng ^a   Evans, Julian R G ^b   Parini, Clive G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directive antenna; Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG); Metamaterial; Millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

BEAM WIDTHS; BROADBAND MOBILE COMMUNICATION; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; EBG STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP (EBG); ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURES; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; LOW PROFILE; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; PROTOTYPE ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENERGY GAP; EXTRUSION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; METAMATERIALS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77953516832     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2029299     Document Type: Article

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