Non-uniform metasurface luneburg lens antenna design

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4065-4073

  Bosiljevac, Marko ^a   Casaletti, Massimiliano ^b   Caminita, Francesco ^b   Sipus, Zvonimir ^a   MacI, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Directive antennas; Luneburg lens antennas; metamaterial surfaces; periodic surfaces

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DESIGN; BANDWIDTH CHARACTERISTICS; CIRCULAR PATCH; DIELECTRIC LENS; DIELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; H-PLANES; LUNEBURG LENS; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; PERIODIC SURFACES; REFRACTION INDEX; STRUCTURE VARIABLES; SURFACE IMPEDANCES;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS;

LENS ANTENNAS;

EID: 84866138767     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207047     Document Type: Article

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