On the miniaturization of semiplanar chiral metamaterial structures

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5768-5776

  Zarifi, Davoud ^a   Soleimani, Mohammad ^a   Nayyeri, Vahid ^a   Rashed Mohassel, Jalil ^b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chiral metamaterials (CMMs); dendritic fractal geometry; echelon meandered geometries; miniaturization; negative refractive index; optical activity; wideband antenna designs

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL METAMATERIALS; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; MINIATURIZATION; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; WIDEBAND ANTENNA;

DESIGN; FRACTALS; GEOMECHANICS; METAMATERIALS; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84870954969     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2214015     Document Type: Article

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