Stability of non-foster reactive elements for use in active metamaterials and antennas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3490-3494

  Ugarte Munoz, Eduardo ^a   Hrabar, Silvio ^b   Segovia Vargas, Daniel ^a   Kiricenko, Aleksandar ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Non Foster reactance; Small antennas; Stability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS; NON-FOSTER REACTANCE; REACTIVE ELEMENTS; SMALL-ANTENNAS; TIME-DOMAIN APPROACH;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; METAMATERIALS;

METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 84863651630     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2196957     Document Type: Article

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