Active tunable metamaterial transmission line based on lumped elements and negative differencial devices

Si Li-Ming; Hou Ji-Xuan; Liu Yong; Lü Xin

doi:10.7498/aps.63.027802

Abstract

To overcome the defects of metamaterials, such as high dispersion, the high loss, and the problem of homogenization, we design and implement an active tunable metamaterial transmission line, and measure the characteristics of active tunable metamaterial transmission line that is based on lumped elements and negative differential devices. From the measured results, it exhibits not only electronically tunable scattering parameters (electro-control tunable characteristic) but also the negative attenuation constant (the propagation amplification) in the left-handed frequency band (active characteristic).

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Authors and contacts

1.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China;
2.
Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
Funds: Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2012AA8123012), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61307128, 61275107), the Specialized Research Fundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20131101120027), and the Basic Research Foundation of Beijing Institute of Technology, China (Grant No. 20120542015).

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[1]	Veselago V G 1968 Sov. Phys. Usp. 10 48
[2]	Cui T J, Smith D R, Liu R P 2010 Metamaterials: Theory, Design and Applications (New York: Springer)
[3]	Caloz C, Itoh T 2005 Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory an Microwave Applications (New York: John Wiley & Sons)
[4]	Chen H Y, Chan C T, Sheng P 2010 Nat. Mater. 9 387
[5]	Hao J M, Wang J, Liu X L, Padilla W J, Zhou L, Qiu M 2010 Appl. Phys. Lett. 96 251104
[6]	Tang M C, Xiao S Q, Wang D, Ge G D, Bai Y Y, Zhang J R, Wang B Z 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 067805
[7]	Chen W Y T, Han P Y, Kuo M L, Lin S Y, Zhang X C 2012 Acta Phys. Sin. 61 088401 (in Chinese) [陈吴玉婷, 韩鹏昱, Kuo Mei-Ling, Lin Shawn-Yu, 张希成 2012 物理学报 61 088401]
[8]	Su Y Y, Gong B Y, Zhao X P 2012 Acta Phys. Sin. 61 084102 (in Chinese) [苏妍妍, 龚伯仪, 赵晓鹏 2012 物理学报 61 084102]
[9]	Si L M, Zhu W, Sun H J 2013 IEEE Antenn. Wirel. Propag. Lett. 12 305
[10]	Si L M, Liu Y, Lu H, Sun H J, L X, Zhu W 2013 IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 25 519
[11]	Liu Y, Si L M, Zhu S H, Xin H 2011 Electron. Lett. 47 80
[12]	Pendry J B, Holden A J, Stewart W J, Youngs I 1996 Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 4773
[13]	Pendry J B, Holden A J, Robbins D J, Stewart W J 1999 IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech. 47 2075
[14]	Smith D R, Padilla W J, Vier D C, Nemat-Nasser S C, Schultz S 2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 4184
[15]	Shelby R A, Smith D R, Schultz S 2001 Science 292 77
[16]	Caloz C, Itoh T 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation Digest San Antonio, USA, 2002 p412
[17]	Iyer A K, Eleftheriades G V 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Microwave Theory and Techniques Digest Seattle, USA, p1067
[18]	Grbic A, Eleftheriades G V 2002 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting San Antonio, USA, p340
[19]	Oliner A A 2002 USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting San Antonio, USA, p41
[20]	Sanada A, Caloz C, Itoh T 2004 IEEE Microw. Wirel. Compon. Lett. 14 68
[21]	Casares-Miranda F P, Camacho-Penalosa C, Caloz C 2006 IEEE Trans. Antenn. Propag. 54 2292
[22]	Powell D A, Shadrivov I V, Kivshar Y S 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 084105
[23]	Xiao S, Drachev V P, Kildishev A V, Ni X, Chettiar U K, Yuan H K, Shalaev V M 2010 Nature 466 735
[24]	Si L M, Jiang T, Chang K, Chen T C, L X, Ran L X, Xin H 2011 Materials 4 73
[25]	Jiang T, Chang K, Si L M, Ran L X, Xin H 2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 205503
[26]	Si L M, Sun H, L X 2011 Microw. Opt. Techn. Lett. 53 515
[27]	Grbic A, Eleftheriades G V 2002 J. Appl. Phys. 92 5930
[28]	Eleftheriades G V, Lyer A K, Kremer P C 2002 IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory. Tech. 50 2702
[29]	He L, Zhang Y W, Li H Q, Chen H, Zhang D K 2005 Acta Phys. Sin. 54 768 (in Chinese) [赫丽, 张冶文, 李宏强, 陈鸿, 张东科 2005 物理学报 54 768]
[30]	Zhu W R, Rukhlenko I D, Si L M, Premaratne M 2013 Appl. Phys. Lett. 102 121911
[31]	Zhao J, Cheng Q, Chen J, Qi M Q, Jiang W X, Cui T J 2013 New J. Phys. 15 043049
[32]	Si L M, Hou J X, Liu Y, L X 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 037806 (in Chinese) [司黎明, 侯吉旋, 刘埇, 吕昕 2013 物理学报 62 037806]

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