The use of simple thin partially reflective surfaces with positive reflection phase gradients to design wideband, low-profile EBG resonator antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 743-750

  Ge, Yuehe ^a   Esselle, Karu P ^b   Bird, Trevor S ^b,c  

^a HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broadband; Electromagnetic band gap (EBG); Fabry Perot; Frequency selective surface (FSS); High gain; Metamaterial; Partially reflecting surface (PRS); Resonator antenna; Wideband

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND; ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAPS; FABRY-PEROT; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SURFACES; HIGH-GAIN; PARTIALLY REFLECTING SURFACES; RESONATOR ANTENNA; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETISM; METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; RESONATORS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84856984575     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173113     Document Type: Article

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