%0 Journal Article %T Transmission Phase Characterizations of Metamaterial Covers for Antenna Application %A Mehdi Veysi %A Manouchehr Kamyab %A Jaber Moghaddasi %A Amir Jafargholi %J PIER Letters %D 2011 %I EMW Publishing %R 10.2528/PIERL10123101 %X Metamaterial covers exhibit inimitable electromagnetic properties which make them popular in antenna engineering. A traditional metamaterial cover has an identical transmission phase for a normally incident plane wave regardless of its polarization state. The purpose of this research is to show the possibility of using a polarization dependent metamaterial cover to change the polarization state of the incident plane wave. Novel polarization-dependent metamaterial (PDMTM) covers, whose transmission phases for two principal polarizations are different, are presented. A full-wave FDTD numerical technique developed by the authors is adopted for the simulations. %U http://www.jpier.org/pierl/pier.php?paper=10123101