Miniaturized ultra-wideband antenna using microstrip negative index metamaterial

Electromagnetics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 404-418

  Alhawari, Adam Reda Hasan ^a   Ismail, Alyani ^a   Mahdi, Mohamad Adzir ^a   Abdullah, Raja Syamsul Azmir Raja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

left handed metamaterials; metamaterial antenna; split ring resonator; ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA SYSTEM; COMPACT SIZE; DIRECTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PERMITTIVITY; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; FARNELL; LEFT HANDED METAMATERIAL; MALAYSIA; MAXIMUM GAIN; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; METAMATERIAL ANTENNA; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; MICROSTRIPES; NEGATIVE INDEX METAMATERIAL; NEGATIVE MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; NEGATIVE REFRACTIONS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL; OPERATING FREQUENCY BANDS; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY; RADIATED POWER; RETURN LOSS; SPIRAL RESONATORS; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; ULTRA WIDE-BAND ANTENNAS; ULTRAWIDEBAND APPLICATIONS; UNIT CELLS; VOLTAGE STANDING-WAVE RATIO;

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY BANDS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RING GAGES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

SPIRAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 79961147391     PISSN: 02726343     EISSN: 1532527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02726343.2011.590961     Document Type: Article

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