Discrete coordinate transformation for designing all-dielectric flat antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3795-3804

  Tang, Wenxuan ^a   Argyropoulos, Christos ^a   Kallos, Efthymios ^a   Song, Wei ^b   Hao, Yang ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

all dielectric metamaterials; Antennas; dispersion; FDTD; flat lens; flat reflector; transformation electromagnetics

Indexed keywords

ALL-DIELECTRIC METAMATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FDTD; FLAT LENS; FLAT REFLECTOR;

DESIGN; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LENSES; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; REFLECTION;

LENS ANTENNAS;

EID: 78650026082     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2078475     Document Type: Article

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