New concept conformal antennas utilizing metamaterial and transformation optics

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 509-512

  Luo, Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Jingjing ^a,b   Ran, Lixin ^a,b   Chen, Hongsheng ^a,b   Kong, Jin Au ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal antennas; Metamaterial; Transformation optics

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; ARRAY ANTENNAS; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; CONFORMAL ANTENNAS; CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS; FREE SPACE; INNER SURFACES; METAMATERIAL COATINGS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; METAMATERIALS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77958020493     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2008.2002537     Document Type: Article

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