Omnidirectional metamaterial antennas based on εvarepsilon$- near-zero channel matching

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-44

  Soric, Jason C ^a   Engheta, Nader ^b   MacI, Stefano ^c   Alu, Andrea ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antennas; frequency hopping; matching; metamaterials; multi band

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CYLINDRICAL ANTENNAS; DESIGN; FREQUENCY HOPPING; METAMATERIALS;

ANOMALOUS TRANSMISSION; ANTENNA DESIGN; CHANNEL MATCHING; COMPACT ANTENNA; DESIGN FORMULAE; DESIGN TOOL; MATCHING; MATCHING NETWORKS; MULTIBAND; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; RADIAL CHANNELS; RADIAL FINS; TUNABILITIES; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY BANDS;

METAMATERIAL ANTENNAS;

EID: 84872012917     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2214994     Document Type: Article

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