Experimental characterization of a broadband transmission-line cloak in free space

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4963-4968

  Alitalo, Pekka ^a   Culhaoglu, Ali E ^b   Osipov, Andrey V ^b   Thurner, Stefan ^b   Kemptner, Erich ^b   Tretyakov, Sergei A ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Scattering; scattering cross section

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FREE SPACE MEASUREMENTS; FREE SPACES; FULL-WAVE SIMULATIONS; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; TOTAL SCATTERING; TRANSMISSION-LINE;

SCATTERING;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 84867347188     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2207339     Document Type: Article

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