Composite metamaterial and metasurface integrated with non-foster active circuit elements: A bandwidth-enhancement investigation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1210-1218

  Saadat, Soheil ^a   Adnan, Muhammad ^b   Mosallaei, Hossein ^a   Afshari, Ehsan ^b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite material; metamaterial; negative permeability; non Foster element

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; COMPOSITE CONFIGURATIONS; COMPOSITE METAMATERIALS; EIGENVALUE TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; NEGATIVE PERMEABILITY; NON-FOSTER ELEMENTS; WIDEBAND CHARACTERISTICS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84874916757     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2227654     Document Type: Article

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