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International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 209741, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/209741
Research Article
Study of Antenna Superstrates Using Metamaterials for Directivity Enhancement Based on Fabry-Perot Resonant Cavity
School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
Received 29 November 2012; Accepted 30 January 2013
Academic Editor: Duixian Liu
Copyright © 2013 Haixia Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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