Numerical and experimental investigation of fishnet-based metamaterial in a X-band waveguide

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SABAH C., Roskos H. G.

JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS, cilt.44, sa.25, 2011 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 25
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1088/0022-3727/44/25/255101
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampüsü Adresli: Hayır

Özet

In this paper, a fishnet-based metamaterial for the microwave X-band frequencies is introduced and investigated both numerically and experimentally. The main innovation introduced here is that the structure is composed of dielectric and metallic parts in such a way that there is no connection between the metallic part of the metamaterial and the waveguide. The homogeneous-effective-medium theory is employed for the characterization of the structure. A left-handed region is identified using the simulated and experimental results. The performance of the structure is described by a figure-of-merit calculation. The measured results are in good agreement with the simulated ones which show that the proposed metamaterial operates well like a fishnet metamaterial at around 10 GHz.