Frequency selective buildings through frequency selective surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2998-3005

  Raspopoulos, Marios ^a   Stavrou, Stavros ^b  

^a SIGINT SOLUTIONS LTD   (Cyprus)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Buildings; frequency selective surfaces (FSS); indoor radio communication; radio propagation; repeaters

Indexed keywords

AREAS OF INTERESTS; BUILDING WALLS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SURFACES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO SIGNALS; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT;

RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO WAVES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WAVE PROPAGATION;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80051496149     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2158779     Document Type: Article

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