Wideband artificial magnetic conductors loaded with non-foster negative inductors

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 1586-1589

  Gregoire, Daniel J ^a   White, Carson R ^a   Colburn, Joseph S ^a  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC); metamaterial; non Foster circuit (NFC)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; NON-FOSTER CIRCUIT (NFC); WIDE-BAND;

INDUCTANCE; METAMATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84856966569     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2181937     Document Type: Article

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