ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews works on high-impedance surface (HIS). Commencing from the definitions and the experimental evidence of the effects associated with HIS, It reviews proposed variations of HIS, analysis techniques, performance characteristics, synthesis considerations and an overview of proposed applications of HIS. The chapter discusses HIS configurations with a more complicated frequency selective surfaces pattern in order to achieve a wideband artificial magnetic conductor performance and stable resonance properties with respect to the angle of incidence. It provides an illustration for the one-dimensional case and some practical examples for the two-dimensional case. The chapter investigates the resonant phenomena occurring in uniplanar HIS, and in particular, in a surface comprising of a doubly periodic array of metallic elements in proximity to a ground plane. Interfaces between dielectric and/or metallic elements typically support waves, with fields that are to a greater or lesser extend confined to the interface.
