Anisotropic 3-D composite right/left-handed metamaterial structures using dielectric resonators and conductive mesh plates

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 7 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1766-1773

  Ueda, Tetsuya ^a   Michishita, Naobumi ^b   Akiyama, Masahiro ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^c  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric resonators; Lens; Parallel plate waveguides; Periodic structures

Indexed keywords

2D-ARRAYS; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED METAMATERIAL; CONDUCTIVE MESH; CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS; DIELECTRIC LAYER; FLAT LENS; FREQUENCY REGIONS; IN-PLANE; LAYER PLANES; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; PARALLEL-PLATE WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; STACKED LAYER; TRANSMISSION STRUCTURES;

ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; LENSES; METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 77954660607     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2049922     Document Type: Article

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