Low profile fully planar folded dipole antenna on a high impedance surface

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-62

  Vallecchi, Andrea ^a   De Luis, Javier R ^b   Capolino, Filippo ^b   De Flaviis, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

AMC ground plane; artificial magnetic conductor; artificial magnetism; artificial substrate; impedance surface; low profile antenna; metamaterials; reflection phase

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR; ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; GROUND PLANES; IMPEDANCE SURFACE; LOW-PROFILE ANTENNAS; REFLECTION PHASE;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; METAMATERIALS; RADIATION SHIELDING;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84855449459     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2167912     Document Type: Article

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