Experimental demonstration and potential applications of a tunable NRI ferrite-wire metamaterial

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 1022-1025

  Couture, Simon ^a   Gauthier, Jules ^a   Kodera, Toshiro ^b   Caloz, Christophe ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ferrite; negative refractive index (NRI) metamaterial; spatial demultiplexer; spectrum analyzer; wire medium

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CIRCULAR ARRAYS; DEMULTIPLEXERS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FERRITE SUBSTRATE; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; METAL WIRES; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REAL-TIME SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; REFRACTION ANGLES; SPATIAL DEMULTIPLEXER; TAPERED TRANSMISSION LINES; WIRE MEDIUM;

DEMULTIPLEXING; FERRITE; LIGHT REFRACTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE SPECTROGRAPHS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 78149444757     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2089597     Document Type: Article

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