Nature-inspired optimization of high-impedance metasurfaces with ultrasmall interwoven unit cells

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 1563-1566

  Bayraktar, Zikri ^a   Turpin, Jeremiah P ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^a  

^a The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial magnetic conductor; electromagnetic band gap (EBG) surfaces; miniaturization; ultrasmall unit cell; wind driven optimization (WDO)

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAPS; MINIATURIZATION; ULTRASMALL UNIT CELL; WIND-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION (WDO);

CYTOLOGY; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

CELLS;

EID: 84856971589     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2011.2178224     Document Type: Article

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