New absorbing boundary conditions and analytical model for multilayered mushroom-type metamaterials: Applications to wideband absorbers

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5727-5742

  Padooru, Yashwanth R ^a   Yakovlev, Alexander B ^a   Kaipa, Chandra S R ^a   Hanson, George W ^b   Medina, Francisco ^c   Mesa, Francisco ^c   Glisson, Allen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions; dispersive media; electromagnetic scattering by absorbing media; impedance boundary conditions; multilayered media; resistive sheets

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; ABSORBING MEDIA; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MULTI-LAYERED MEDIA; RESISTIVE SHEETS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHENE; METAMATERIALS; MODELS; MULTILAYERS; WIRE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

EID: 84870917608     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2209196     Document Type: Article

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