Transmission line approach of left-handed (LH) materials and microstrip implementation of an artificial LH transmission line

@article{citeulike:1992063, abstract = {A transmission line (TL) approach of left-handed (LH) materials is proposed. The transmission characteristics of an ideal LH-TL are presented, the constitutive parameters of an equivalent LH material are derived and shown to be negative, and some LH-transmission paradoxes are explained. Next, a method to design an artificial LH-TL in the form of an ideal lumped-elements ladder network is described and illustrated with simulation results. It is shown that, in this line, left-handedness can be achieved without losses over an unlimited bandwidth, from the cutoff of the resulting high-pass filter to infinity, with excellent agreement with theory. Finally, a microstrip implementation of the LH line for microwaves, using interdigital capacitors and stub inductors, is demonstrated, with moderate insertion loss and a broad bandwidth of the order of 100\%.}, author = {Caloz, C. and Itoh, T. }, booktitle = {Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {1992063}, journal = {Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {crlh, lh, metamaterial, microstrip, tl}, number = {5}, pages = {1159--1166}, posted-at = {2007-11-27 10:16:58}, priority = {2}, title = {Transmission line approach of left-handed (LH) materials and microstrip implementation of an artificial LH transmission line}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs\_all.jsp?arnumber=1296824}, volume = {52}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1992063 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1992063 TI - Transmission line approach of left-handed (LH) materials and microstrip implementation of an artificial LH transmission line T2 - Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on JF - Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on VL - 52 IS - 5 SP - 1159 EP - 1166 N2 - A transmission line (TL) approach of left-handed (LH) materials is proposed. The transmission characteristics of an ideal LH-TL are presented, the constitutive parameters of an equivalent LH material are derived and shown to be negative, and some LH-transmission paradoxes are explained. Next, a method to design an artificial LH-TL in the form of an ideal lumped-elements ladder network is described and illustrated with simulation results. It is shown that, in this line, left-handedness can be achieved without losses over an unlimited bandwidth, from the cutoff of the resulting high-pass filter to infinity, with excellent agreement with theory. Finally, a microstrip implementation of the LH line for microwaves, using interdigital capacitors and stub inductors, is demonstrated, with moderate insertion loss and a broad bandwidth of the order of 100%. KW - crlh KW - lh KW - metamaterial KW - microstrip KW - tl AU - Caloz, C AU - Itoh, T PY - 2004/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1296824 ER -