Influence of substrate configuration on the angular response pattern of infrared antennas

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21705-21713

  Bean, Jeffrey A ^a   Slovick, Brian A ^a   Boreman, Glenn D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DISTILLATION; SUBSTRATES;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANGULAR RESPONSE; ANTENNA-COUPLED; APPLIED BIAS; ELECTRICAL ISOLATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FAR-FIELD; FREQUENCY ANTENNAS; GROUND PLANES; INFRARED ANTENNAS; MEASURED RESULTS; METAL-OXIDE; STANDOFF LAYERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 78049509541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021705     Document Type: Article

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