Overcoming mutual blockage between neighboring dipole antennas using a low-profile patterned metasurface

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 1414-1417

  Monti, Alessio ^a   Soric, Jason ^b   Alu, Andrea ^b   Bilotti, Filiberto ^a   Toscano, Alessandro ^a   Vegni, Lucio ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloaking; dipole antennas; metasurfaces

Indexed keywords

BLOCKAGE EFFECTS; CLOAKING; METASURFACES;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84871848237     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2229102     Document Type: Article

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