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Abstract

A new thin electromagnetic soft surface of strips in which ledge edges are used to reduce the strip period width and in turns a miniaturized structure is achieved. The designed surface is tested to reduce the mutual coupling between microstrip patches separated by a half wavelength. A 20% relative bandwidth of the bandgap is achieved. Study of the effect of different parameters is presented. The measurements show good agreement with the computed results.

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Dr. Said A. Abushamleh

Prof. Hussain M. Al-Rizzo

Professor Ahmed A. Kishk

Dr. Ayman Abbosh

Dr. Haider Khaleel