Investigation of resonators loaded periodic structures

The study of metamaterials has brought about new changes in modern microwave communication systems. As predicted by Veselago some 37 years ago, substances which exhibit simultaneously, negative permittivity ([epsilon]) and negative permeability ([mu]) over a certain range of frequencies would display some unusual phenomena such as backward waves, reversed refraction, backward Cerenkov radiation, and negative refractive index. Because of these new features of left handed materials, many structures such as split rings resonators (SRR) have been proposed in the literature to artificially fabricate radio frequency and microwave components. Due to their bulk properties, periodic arrays of SRRs provide a negative permeability. Therefore under the fundamental limit of effective medium theory that the dimensions of the lattice are much smaller than the wavelength, we can treat the array of SRRs as bulk material and retrieve its effective parameters.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2006

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• Diao, M'baye, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Jin A. Kong and Bae-Ian Wu.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35606

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