Beamforming by left-handed extraordinary transmission metamaterial Bi- and plano-concave lens at millimeter-waves

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2141-2151

  Navarro Cia, Miguel ^a   Beruete, Miguel ^a   Campillo, Igor ^b   Ayza, Mario Sorolla ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Eggcrate lens; extraordinary transmission; metallic lens; metamaterials

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR POWER DISTRIBUTION; CUT-OFF; EGGCRATE LENS; EXTRAORDINARY TRANSMISSION; INDEX OF REFRACTION; METALLIC LENS; NEGATIVE INDEX OF REFRACTION; SUBWAVELENGTH HOLE ARRAYS;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 79958015334     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2143651     Document Type: Article

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