Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering

| ABC | Absorbing Boundary Condition |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| AMC | Artificial Magnetic Conductor |
| AR | Axial Ratio |
| ARMA | Auto-Regressive Moving Average |
| CP | Circular Polarization |
| DNG | Double NeGative |
| DBSWA | Dual Band Surface Wave Antenna |
| EBG | Electromagnetic Band Gap |
| EMI | ElectroMagnetic Interference |
| FDTD | Finite Difference Time Domain |
| FEM | Finite Element Method |
| FSS | Frequency Selective Surface |
| GA | Genetic Algorithm |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GUI | Graphic User Interface |
| HIS | High Impedance Surface |
| LH | Left Handed |
| LHCP | Left Hand Circular Polarization |
| LTCC | Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic |
| MEMS | Micro-Electro-Mechanical System |
| MMIC | Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit |
| MoM | Method of Moment |
| NRI | Negative Refractive Index |
| PBC | Periodic Boundary Condition |
| PBG | Photonic Band Gap |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| PDEBG | Polarization-Dependent Electromagnetic Band Gap |
| PEC | Perfect Electric Conductor |
| PMC | Perfect Magnetic Conductor |
| PFSWA | Patch-Fed Surface Wave Antenna |
| PML | Perfectly Matched Layers |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimization |
| RCS | Radar Cross Section |
| RHCP | Right Hand Circular Polarization |
| RFID | Radio Frequency IDentification |
| SFDTD | Spectral Finite Difference Time Domain |
| SWA | Surface Wave Antenna |
| TE | Transverse Electric |
| TEM | Transverse ElectroMagnetic |
| TM | Transverse Magnetic |
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