Planar array of electric-LC resonators with broadband tunability

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 577-580

  Withayachumnankul, Withawat ^a,b   Fumeaux, Christophe ^a   Abbott, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Electric LC (ELC) resonator; frequency selective surface; metamaterial; tunability

Indexed keywords

DC BIAS; ELECTRIC LC (ELC) RESONATOR; FABRICATED ARRAYS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES; INDUCTIVE LOOPS; LARGE ARRAYS; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; PLANAR ARRAYS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; STRATEGIC PLACEMENT; TUNABILITIES; WIDE TUNING RANGE; WIDEBAND OPERATION;

METAMATERIALS; RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VARACTORS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 79959741445     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2158794     Document Type: Article

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