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IET MICROWAVES ANTENNAS & PROPAGATION
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 177-183Publisher
INSTITUTION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-IET
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map:20050353
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An investigation of planar metamaterial antennas consisting of grounded metamaterial substrates with low and/or high values of the electric permittivity and/or the magnetic permeability excited by dipole sources is presented. Their performances are characterised in terms of their capability to radiate high levels of power density in the broadside direction and to produce narrow pencil beams pointing at broadside with high directivity. To achieve a high directivity, a pair of weakly attenuated cylindrical leaky waves is excited along the metamaterial substrate; sufficient conditions are established for the existence of such leaky waves in terms of the values of the substrate permittivity and permeability. Approximate closed-form expressions are derived for the phase and attenuation constants of the leaky waves. Numerical results are given in order to illustrate the radiative features of this class of antennas and to validate the theoretical analysis.
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