Broadband and high-gain planar Vivaldi antennas based on inhomogeneous anisotropic zero-index metamaterials

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 120, Issue , 2011, Pages 235-247

  Zhou, B ^a   Li, H ^a   Zou, X Y ^a   Cui, T J ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ANTENNA DIRECTIVITY; BROAD APPLICATION; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; HALF POWER BEAM WIDTHS; HIGH-DIRECTIVITY; PERMEABILITY TENSORS; VIVALDI ANTENNAS;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 80054753961     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER11072710     Document Type: Article

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