Triple‐band polarization‐insensitive metamaterial absorber with low profile

In this article, a triple‐band metamaterial low‐profile absorber with polarization independence is proposed. The proposed metamaterial unit cell is composed of two modified rings with square patch at corners. In addition, the proposed absorber is consists of 10 × 10 periodic unit cells with size of 100 mm × 100 mm. To explain the mechanism, the electric field, the surface current distribution, and equivalent circuit model are present. The structure exhibiting three absorption peaks of 99.01%, 97.18%, and 99.53% under normal incidence at 8.92‐9.11 GHz, 13.78‐14.05 GHz and 14.92‐15.21 GHz which cover X and Ku‐band, respectively. In addition, the proposed structure is insensitive for the transverse magnetic/transverse electric field polarization of incident waves and also the angle of incidence. Furthermore, the three operating bands of the absorber can be adjusted independently and offers low profile which makes the design suitable for different curved surface applications. The proposed structure is fabricated and experiments are carried out to validate the design principle. Good agreements are observed between the measured and the corresponding simulated results.     

High‐gain compact rectangular dielectric resonator antenna using metamaterial as superstrate

A compact high‐gain rectangular dielectric resonator antenna (RDRA) using metamaterial (MTM) as superstrate for C‐band applications is proposed in this article. The proposed antenna consists of coaxial‐fed RDRA with 50 unit cells of MTM arranged in 5 × 10 layout as superstrate. Each unit cell is constructed of two parallel eight‐shaped copper strips printed over both faces of a dielectric substrate to provide negative refractive index from 7.3 to 8.1 GHz covering the maximum bandwidth of RDRA. The extracted lumped equivalent circuit model of unit cell of MTM shows concurrence with electromagnetic simulations. The use of MTM superstrate increases the peak gain of the antenna by 89% through simulation and 86% experimentally. The measured results show that the proposed antenna achieves an impedance bandwidth of 16.1% over a band of 7.18‐8.44 GHz, with a peak gain of 14 dBi at 7.8 GHz.     

Tunable magnetic metamaterial based multi-split-ring resonator (MSRR) using MEMS switch components

The split-ring resonator (SRR) arrays are commonly used to form a negative refractive index metamaterial that exhibits an effective negative permeability. However, the region of negative permeability obtained by SRR unit cell is generally limited to a narrow bandwidth at a fixed frequency. In this paper, we present a tunable metamaterial based on multi-split-ring resonators (MSRR) with MEMS switch components to realize controllable magnetic resonant frequency. Numerical simulations are performed to validate the proposed theory and tunability. The simulated results show that the MSRR structure metamaterial can realize digital tuning mode and continuous tuning mode by controlling state and height of MEMS switch components, respectively. Moreover, the simulated results are consistent with the theoretical results, which verify that the proposed theory is effective in prediction and analysis of magnetic resonant frequency. Therefore, such a tunable metamaterial can be reconfigured into a variety of states for use in different applications.     

Effects of using different boundary conditions and computational domain dimensions on modeling and simulations of periodic metamaterial arrays in microwave frequencies

This article aims to demonstrate the effects of using different boundary conditions and different computational volume dimensions in numerical simulations of periodic metamaterial arrays. A double band metamaterial unit cell design will be utilized to show that use of different boundary conditions may result in simulation of dissimilar periodic array topologies with completely different electromagnetic responses. It will also be shown that dimensions of the computational volume may strongly affect the overall response of the metamaterial structure due to varying electromagnetic coupling between the array elements. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2013.     

压电超材料单元设计及在弹性梁减振中的应用

超材料是将不同性质的材料按照某种规律组合在一起形成的一种周期材料.由于其对弹性波的传递会产生带隙效应,因此在噪声控制、减振隔振等领域得到重视.本文设计了一种压电超材料,通过压电材料元胞的周期性排列,产生频率带隙,以获得减振效果.结构尺寸及厚度小,可以粘贴在主结构上.首先分析了设计的压电超材料色散特性;其次,利用压电超材料对悬臂梁结构进行了减振研究,分析了若干个元胞组成的压电超材料对梁振动能量的调控,并结合压电片上的电压曲线;最后,研究了分流电路中的电阻值和电感值对压电超材料梁减振特性的影响.提出此类压电超材料的进一步改进方向.     

Effect of stepped‐impedance resonators on rectangular metamaterial unit cells

In this article, effect of the stepped‐impedance resonator (SIR) miniaturization technique on rectangular metamaterial unit cells is investigated and the influence of the method's structural parameters on the characteristic impedance and the distance between higher resonance modes is discussed. According to the results, the ideal unit cell for this method should be thick enough and have an impedance ratio greater than one. Furthermore, the SIR technique is applied on a conventional two‐turn spiral metamaterial unit cell and a new compact spiral unit cell is introduced. The effect of this method on the unit cell parameters is investigated and the new unit cell is compared to the conventional spiral. According to the results, a miniaturization factor of 0.75 can be achieved with the new unit cell. To validate the results, a two dimensional array of the unit cell is fabricated and its S‐parameters are measured using the free space method. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 25:582–590, 2015.     

Development of broadband forward‐wave directional couplers loaded by periodic patterned ground structure

In this paper two wideband Forward‐Wave Directional Couplers (FWDCs) with 0 dB and 3 dB coupling level are proposed. Using periodic patterned ground structure in a microstrip coupled lines by a new unit cell; even‐ and odd‐mode characteristic impedances of the couplers are equal over a wide frequency range. Moreover, it provides a constant phase difference between even and odd‐modes. The proposed cell is modeled using the equivalent circuit model and a design procedure is introduced for designing FWDCs for an arbitrary value of coupling level. The introduced couplers are numerically investigated and a prototype of both couplers is made. It is shown that for 0 dB coupling level, the measured coupling is 0.85 dB with 1 dB flatness over fractional bandwidth of 96% bandwidth. In case of 3 dB coupling, the measured coupling level is 3.5 dB at 7.42 GHz with 1 dB flatness over fractional bandwidth of 67.1%.     

A new equivalent circuit for inverters and its application for the determination of coupling matrix elements of narrow RF bandpass filters

A new equivalent circuit for inverters is presented. Using this circuit, expression for the elements of the coupling matrix of narrow RF band pass filters is derived. The derivation is based on frequency independent coupling assumed in the synthesis of narrow RF band pass filters. Our expression is different from an earlier expression obtained using lumped circuit representations of different types of coupling and their analysis. It is shown that the earlier expression can be derived from our analysis if the coupling is assumed frequency‐variant. Unlike earlier work, our derivation shows how the sign of the coupling coefficient can be obtained. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2010.     

直曲增强型负泊松比超材料的力学性能与减振研究

负泊松比超材料结构作为一种新型智能材料与结构,精确计算超材料结构在大应变下的非线性力学性能对其在工程中的潜在应用具有重要意义.本文在弧形内凹负泊松比结构中加入直杆,设计了一类直杆增强型直曲耦合内凹超材料结构;利用能量法推导出了曲边内凹蜂窝结构的横/纵向等效泊松比与等效弹性模量的解析表达式,讨论结构各参数对结构等效泊松比与等效弹性模量的影响.考虑几何非线性大变形,建立了曲边内凹负泊松比结构的有限元模型,并与线性模拟结果对比,验证了解析表达式的正确性.结果表明,等效泊松比与等效弹性模量均随变形增大而变化,且变形越大差异越明显,大变形下须考虑几何非线性;利用谐响应分析计算结构的加速度级和加速度振级落差,凸显所设计超材料结构的减振性能;分析结构整体减振性能,发现其随层数增加逐渐增大;不随频率变化,在低频范围内对激励产生的响应能够起到抑制作用.因此,合理的设计超材料微结构对结构的低频振动具有很好的抑制作用,对负泊松比超材料减振结构设计具有一定的参考意义.     

Metamaterial band theory： fundamentals ＆ applications

Remarkable progress has been made over the past decade in controlling light propagation and absorption in compact devices using nanophotonic structures and metamaterials. From sensing and modulation, to on-chip communication and light trapping for solar cells, new device applications and opportunities motivate the need for a rigorous understanding of the modal properties of metamaterials over a broad range of frequencies. In this review, we provide an overview of a metamaterial band theory we have developed that rigorously models the behavior of metamaterials made of dispersive materials such as metals. The theory extends traditional photonic band theory for periodic dielectric structures by coupling the mechanical motion of electrons in the metal directly to Maxwell＇s equations. The solution for the band structures of metamaterials is then reduced to a standard matrix eigenvalue problem that nevertheless fully takes into account the dispersive properties of the constituent materials. As an application of the metamaterial band theory, we show that one can develop a perturbation formalism based on this theory to physically explain and predict the effect of dielectric refractive index modulation or metallic plasma frequency variation in metamaterials. Furthermore, the metamaterial band theory also provides an intuitive physical picture of the source of modal material loss, as well as a rigorous upper bound on the modal material loss rate of any plasmonic, metamaterial structure. This in turn places fundamental limits on the broadband operation of such devices for applications such as photodetection and absorption.     

Modeling of mutual coupling of arbitrary order in coupled circuits and array antennas

This article presents a fundamental strategy for accurately modeling the mutual coupling of arbitrary order in any large‐scale electromagnetic structures and high‐density integrated chips such as antenna array elements and coupled circuit elements. The proposed method starts from the modeling of the first‐order mutual coupling, and it consists of two main steps. First of all, an equivalent circuit model describing low‐order mutual coupling (adjacent coupling) is characterized and established, of which each parametric value is accurately extracted by making use of a numerical calibration technique. Then, the circuit model for high‐order mutual coupling (crossover or crosstalk coupling) is generated from the lower order models, and it can further be used for the modeling of mutual coupling of any higher order. The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method are demonstrated by three different kinds of structure including a linear phased array antenna, a finite periodic electromagnetic structure, and a planar low‐pass filter. This novel approach represents an easy, fast, and effective characterization of arbitrary‐order mutual coupling. It can find applications in the modeling of mutual coupling between any circuit elements and building blocks such as antennas, resonators, and even small discontinuities, and it promises to be helpful for the analysis and iterative design of microwave circuits and antenna arrays. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2011.     

Bandwidth‐controllable band‐stop filter using spoof surface plasmon polaritons

This article presents a bandwidth‐controllable band‐stop filter based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) transmission line in the microwave frequency band. The approach of introducing rectangular slots into the corrugation strips offers a greater degree of flexibility in the SSPPs unit cell design. Meanwhile, the high‐order mode can be pulled to the low frequency segment of interest. The lower and upper edge of the stop band of this filter, therefore, can be controlled independently and conveniently. An equivalent circuit model of this unique unit cell is proposed for analyzing stop band formation and guiding the design of this SSSPs filter. Both numerical simulations and measured results demonstrate excellent stop band performance of the filter. The proposed filter may have potential applications in the SSPPs‐based communication system.     

Electrothermal-driven gap adjustable MEMS comb structure: modeling and simulation of the equivalent circuit macromodel

Theoretical model of gap adjustable comb structure has been presented in this paper. This structure can be used to increase the sensitivity of sensor. As an example, an electrothermal-driven gap adjustable comb structure has been proposed, and the mechanical–electrical coupling equations of the system have been derived. According to the coupling equations, a macromodel of the comb structure has been presented through the combine of equivalent circuit method and nodal analysis method. Simulation of the macromodel has been carried out with SPICE, and the result agreed with the FEA result in a certain range of accuracy. The result has also been compared with theoretical analysis, which coincide the theoretical solution fully. Amplitude modulation characteristics of the gap adjustable comb structure have also been studied with SPICE in this paper.     

An approach to predicting dynamic power dissipation of coupled interconnect network in dynamic CMOS logic circuits

In deep submicron (DSM) integrated circuits (IC), coupling capacitors between interconnects become dominant over grounded capacitors. As a result, the dynamic power dissipation of one node is no longer only in relation to the signal on that node, and it also depends on signals on its neighbor nodes through coupling capacitors. Thus, for their limitation in dealing with ca-pacitively coupled nets, past jobs on power estimation are facing rigorous challenges and need to be ameliorated. This paper proposes and proves a simple and fast approach to predicting dynamic power dissipation of coupled interconnect networks: a coupling capacitor in dynamic CMOS logic circuits is decoupled and mapped into an equivalent cell containing an XOR gate and a grounded capacitor, and the whole circuit after mapping, consuming the same power as the original one, could be easily managed by generally-used gate-level power estimation tools. This paper also investigates the correlation coefficient method (CCM). Given the signal p     

Novel single-layer dual-band half-mode substrate integrated waveguide filter and filtering power dividers with very compact sizes

In this article, a novel single-layer dual-band (DB) half-mode substrate integrated waveguide (HMSIW) filter and three equal/unequal DB HMSIW filtering power dividers (FPDs) with super-compact sizes have been proposed. In order to design the proposed devices, the evanescent mode technique and the metamaterial concept have been used, simultaneously. Two passbands have been generated below the cut-off frequency of the HMSIW structure by etching a new compact DB metamaterial unit cell with effective negative permittivity in two different frequencies on the metal surface of the HMSIW structure. The center frequencies of these two passbands can be simply controlled by changing the size of the DB metamaterial unit cell. To confirm the design concept, three prototypes of the DB structures working at 2.4 and 3.5 GHz are simulated, constructed, and measured. The overall dimension of the designed DB HMSIW filter and DB HMSIW FPDs are approximately 0.12 λ_g × 0.11 λ_g. Compared to other existing devices, the performance of the proposed structures is very satisfactory. Compact size, easy integration, easy fabrication process, low cost, low loss, and high selectivity are the advantages of the designed structures.     

微网内储能单元的建模及协调控制

通过仿真建模的方式研究电池类储能单元与电网负荷交互的特性以及储能单元对实现微电网电量自平衡的重要作用。根据锂离子电池特性,从电化学角度分析建立等效电路模型,通过对实际3．4V／3Ah锂离子电池充放电曲线的分析计算来确定电池模型参数,模型仿真曲线与实际充放电曲线拟合程度高。进一步构建储能单元模型,模拟仿真微电网中负载发生突变的情况,可以观察到储能单元对于微电网能量自平衡的贡献。     

Solving metamaterial Maxwell’s equations via a vector wave integro-differential equation

In this paper, we discuss the time-domain metamaterial Maxwell’s equations. One major contribution of this paper is that after some effort we find that the metamaterial Maxwell’s equations can be beautifully reduced to a vector wave integro-differential equation involving just one unknown, which is quite similar to that obtained from the standard Maxwell’s equations in vacuum. Then we study the existence and uniqueness of this new modeling equations, and propose a fully-discrete finite element method to solve this model. Numerical results justifying our analysis are presented. This discovery shall make simulation of metamaterials much more efficient than the previous works.     

Novel application of a new metamaterial complementary electric LC resonator for the design of miniaturized sharp band‐pass filters

In this article, we introduce a new metamaterial complementary electric LC resonator (CELC) and investigate its operational mechanism, characteristics, and potentialities for application in microwave components and devices, such as filters. We consider the excitation of CELC by the electric and magnetic fields of microstrip lines and its resonance characteristics by the diagrams of effective permittivity (ε_eff) and permeability (μ_eff). A circuit model is obtained by the consideration of its coupling with the loaded microstrip line. We then realize a novel left‐handed (LH) cell by the combination of the CELC resonator and a short circuited stub. It is designed by the least mean square method. We finally use the cascade connection of such LH cells for the design of a miniaturized narrow‐band band‐pass filter with high out of band rejection. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2013.     

A miniaturized planar nonbianisotropic left‐handed metamaterial

In this article, a miniaturized nonbianisotropic left‐handed metamaterial composed of spiral‐S‐shaped resonator and conducting wire is proposed. This symmetrical structure avoids bianisotropy and it shows a controllable low‐loss double negative (DNG) band. Its electrical size is less than half of the well‐known S‐shaped resonator, which makes it to be considered as a good homogenous effective media. Although the structure is not uniplanar, it is not vulnerable to fabrication errors stem from misalignment of both sides. Both the simulation and experiment results demonstrate left‐handed properties. Also, a circuit model is proposed which can accurately predict the magnetic resonant frequency. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2011.     

A triangular MIMO array antenna with a double negative metamaterial superstrate to enhance bandwidth and gain

Multiple‐input‐multiple‐output (MIMO) array antenna integrated with the double negative metamaterial superstrate is presented. The triangular metamaterial unit cell is designed by combining two triangular elements positioned in complementary on the same plane at different sizes. Such design with more gaps is used to excite rooms for more capacitance effects to shift the resonance frequency thus enlarging the bandwidth of the MIMO antenna. The unit cell is arranged in 7 × 7 periodic array created a superstrate metamaterial plane where the C_stray exists in parallel between the two consecutive cells. It is found that the existence of C_stray and gaps for each unit cells significantly influenced the bandwidth of the MIMO antenna. The higher value of the capacitance will lead to the negativity of permittivity. The superstrate plane is then located on top of the 4 × 2 MIMO with a gap of 5 mm. The integration resulted in improving the bandwidth to 12.45% (5.65‐6.4GHz) compared to only 3.49% bandwidth (5.91‐6.12GHz) of the MIMO antenna itself. Moreover, the negative permeability characteristic is created by a strong magnetic field between the complementary unit cells to have 14.05‐dBi peak gain. Besides that, the proposed antenna managed to minimize the mutual coupling and improve the mean effective gain, envelope correlation coefficient, and multiplexing efficiency.