Numerical studies of bandwidth of parallel-plate cut-off realised by a bed of nails, corrugations and mushroom-type electromagnetic bandgap for use in gap waveguides

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 282-289

  Rajo Iglesias, E ^a   Kildal, P S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; BED OF NAILS; CUT-OFF; ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAPS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP SURFACES; LOCAL WAVE; METAL PIN; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARALLEL METAL PLATES; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; PARALLEL PLATES; STOP-BANDS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENERGY GAP; METAMATERIALS; PLATE METAL; STRIP METAL; TEXTURES; WAVEGUIDES;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 79951544462     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2010.0073     Document Type: Article

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