AMC-PEC-AMC strips in parallel plate waveguides

Best efforts have been made in order to assure that the structure works in a proper way. For this reason, in this paper some software simulations and prototype measurement and evaluation was performed. This work demonstrates the feasibility of applying the AMC-PEC-AMC configuration in parallel plate waveguides to enhance the properties of the wave propagation. In the case of using several AMC-PEC-AMC structures working like consecutive virtual waveguides in a plane, the coupling between each other was reduced. With the obtained results, the paper considers different possibilities using these architectures to perform planar antennas with specific features