A slow light fishnet-like absorber in the millimeter-wave range

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2011, Pages 287-301

  Navarro Cia M ^a   Torres, V ^b   Beruete, M ^b   Sorolla, M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; POLARIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORBERS; ENGINEERED STRUCTURES; FINITE CONDUCTIVITY; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; MILLIMETER-WAVE RANGE; RADIATION STRUCTURE; SUBWAVELENGTH HOLE ARRAYS; ZERO-GROUP VELOCITY;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 79960670236     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER11053105     Document Type: Article

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