含有异向介质H形波导的特性研究

将开口谐振环作为加载单元,分析了含有异向介质H形波导的新型传输特性.由于异向介质的双各向异性效应,纵剖面磁波型和纵剖面电波型在此新型导波结构中的相速度能够减慢,并且会引起功率流动的增强.在一些情况下,纵剖面磁波型和纵剖面电波型将出现传播常量随频率增高而减小的异常高次模式.而在其它情况下,利用双各向异性效应可以有效减少纵剖面磁和纵剖面电波型的高次模漏波现象.尤其当异向介质取得单负参量时,此新型导波结构将能够完全抑制高次模漏波的出现.     

异向介质填充非辐射介质波导和H波导中的高次模及漏波抑制

 通过对加载异向非辐射介质波导(NRD)和H波导的全波分析,研究了此新型导波结构的传输特性。由于开口谐振环所引起的双各向异性效应,在双负参数条件下,纵剖面磁(LSM)波型和纵剖面电(LSE)波型将可能出现传播常数随频率增高而减小的异常高次模式,从而引起漏波。而在其它情况下,利用双各向异性效应却可以有效减少LSM和LSE波型的高次模漏波现象。尤其当异向介质取得单负参数时,此新型导波结构将能够完全抑制高次模漏波的出现。     

加载异向介质非辐射介质波导中的慢波传输及应用

将开口谐振环作为加载单元,分析了含有开口谐振环结构非辐射介质波导的新型传输特性.由于异向介质的双各向异性效应,纵剖面磁波型和纵剖面电波型在此新型非辐射介质波导中的传输速度能够减慢,甚至达到零速度.对于波导中的能量关系也进行了分析,研究表明,在一定情况下,慢波传输将引起功率流动的增强.这些特性使得此新型非辐射介质波导更能满足小型化的设计要求. 关键词： 开口谐振环 异向介质 非辐射介质波导 慢波传输     

一种新型异向介质设计及实验验证

本文提出了工作在X波段的单面双S型异向介质结构,在仿真、实验两个方面对这种新型异向介质的异向特性进行了验证.实验和仿真结果均表明,这种新型的异向介质结构在这一工作频率下具有负折射特性.这种新型的异向介质具有两个优势:更加便于制造和便于添加可控器件使单面异向介质成为可控异向介质.     

C波段平面异向介质设计及其后向波特性验证

提出了一种工作在C波段的新型平面结构异向介质，它除了带宽宽和损耗小外，还具有体积小、结构简单的优点，而且能够实现工作频段的平移，频率平移范围为4—20 GHz.基于电磁波由自由空间入射半无限大异向介质平板的传输和反射数据，计算出了电波在其中传播时的相速随频率的变化曲线，结果表明所讨论的异向介质确实在预想的频段上表现出后向波特性；同时利用相位观察法进一步验证了上述的后向波特性，从而肯定了异向介质的存在. 关键词： 异向介质 宽频带 小单元 后向波特性     

双通带异向平板波导的特性

提出了一种基于平板波导的新型异向谐振结构——交叉椅型谐振结构,通过理论分析和数值计算,说明和验证了单个交叉椅型谐振结构加载的平板波导具有双通带特性和异向特性;设计了一种由多个交叉椅型谐振结构周期加载的异向平板波导结构,并通过仿真实验验证了其负折射特性。交叉椅型谐振结构的全金属半封闭式结构和其特殊的电磁谐振方式,使得此类2维异向平板波导与传统的由金属开口谐振环与金属线正交阵列而成的2维异向介质相比,具有双通带、无介质损耗、功率容量大等特异性质;单个交叉椅型谐振结构加载的平板波导作为一种新型的滤波器结构,具有良好的双通带特性,尺寸较小。     

含有左手介质双层基底的亚波长谐振腔微带天线研究

将谐振腔引入微带结构,分析和设计了含有左手介质双层基底的亚波长谐振腔微带天线.基于左手介质对右手介质的相位补偿效应,此新型微带天线的高度并没有因为双层基底而大为增加,反而有所降低.计算表明：在一些情况下,大幅度提高的带宽特性突破了传统微带天线的窄带局限,而在另一些情况下,所得到窄带微带天线能够在单频率点谐振鉴频.针对这一特性,将亚波长谐振腔微带天线应用于探测器中,显示了此新型微带天线在目标探测上的优势. 关键词： 微带天线 左手介质 谐振腔     

各向异性圆柱掺杂光子晶体的缺陷模及其量子效应

利用光波在一维各向异性圆柱掺杂光子晶体中径向受限的条件,研究了光波在其中出现的模式量子效应,并利用特征矩阵法计算了TE波和TM波各模式的缺陷模的变化规律,得出了一些一维各向异性圆柱光子晶体缺陷模的新结构.缺陷模的频率和透射角都随模式量子数的增加而增大.同一模式缺陷模的频率随圆柱半径的增加而减小. 关键词： 圆柱光子晶体 各向异性介质 量子效应 缺陷模     

基于双Z形金属条的双入射型左手材料研究

提出了一种新型二维左手材料结构单元,该结构由介质板及其两侧放置的两个反向对称的Z形金属条组成.在电磁波垂直于介质板和平行于介质板入射两种情况下,这种结构单元于X波段均表现出左手通带特性.通过模拟仿真,提取等效电磁参数,建立等效磁谐振电路模型,分析验证了该结构的左手特性.并将双Z形结构与相似的工字形结构相比较,发现在电磁波垂直入射时两种结构均出现相似的左手通带,而在电磁波平行入射时,只有双Z形结构实现了双负特性.结果表明这种双Z形左手单元结构具有更优越的电磁波入射适应特性,即实现了双入射型左手结构单元. 关键词： 双Z形结构 二维 左手材料 双入射     

各向异性固体板中的非线性超声导波

将超声导波的非线性视为线性波动响应的一个二阶微扰,采用二阶微扰近似和导波的模式展开分析方法,从理论上研究了各向异性固体板中超声导波的二次谐波发生效应,给出了超声导波二次谐波声场的一般形式解.板材的各向异性可从多个方面对二次谐波发生效应产生影响,尤其是板材各向异性引起的导波模式相速度的改变,可显著地影响到构成导波二次谐波声场的二倍频导波模式随传播距离的积累增长程度.根据理论分析和数值计算结果可知,在不同传播方向上超声导波的非线性效应存在较显著的差异,伴随基频导波模式的传播所发生的二次谐波对固体板材的各向异性表现出更为敏感的性质,这一结果可为准确定征板材的弹性各向异性提供一种理论依据.     

Tuning the negative electromagnetic response in periodically perforated metal-dielectric-metal structures

We fabricate Ag-SU-8-Ag sandwich metamaterials perforated with a periodic array of dipoles. The transmittance spectra of both experiment and modeling have indicated the existence of low- and high-intensity transmission bands in midinfrared frequencies. The position of these transmission bands depend on the dipole length, and lattice structure. The high-intensity transmission bands are due to the excitation of the external surface plasmon plartion (SPP) modes and the localized modes, while the low-intensity transmission bands are from the excitation of the internal SPP modes. The transmittance of the low transmission bands can be increased by decreasing the relative position of the two transmission bands, and the negative electromagnetic response of the metamaterials is also increased. However, if we further decrease the relative position of the two bands, the low transmission band will be merged in the high transmission band, and no negative electromagnetic response can be retrieved.     

Analysis of Transmission Characteristics for NRD/Microstrip Line Hybrid Integrated LSE and LSM-Mode Baluns*

The NRD/microstrip line hybrid integration structure shows good behavior for millimeter wave applications. This paper applies the integral equations method to analyze the transmission characteristics of the NRD/microstrip line hybrid integrated baluns coupling through slot and operating in LSE or LSM modes. To apply this method, a new Greens’ function of microstrip line is presented and the slot coupling problems between NRD guide and microstrip line and the practical LSE and LSM-mode baluns are analyzed respectively. The availability of the present approach is validated by rather good agreement between the theoretical results and the experiment data given in the literature.* Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60371010) (No. 60471037)     

Analysis and application of NRD-guide excitors

In this paper, the NRD-guide excitors using a length of coaxial line which consists of a rectangle external conductor and a thin round inner conductor are presented, and the characteristics of the input impedances of LSE ₁₁ ^o mode and LSM ₁₁ ^o mode at the insertion points are analysed and calculated by using the method of the rector Green's function respectively. The computation results show that the mode excitors are able to improve the operating modes matching between NRD-guide and the quasi-TEM transmission line. The structures are suitable for fabrication LSE ₁₁ ^o mode oscillator and LSM ₁₁ ^o mode oscillator to compose millimeter wave NRD-guide integrated front ends. An example of an LSE ₁₁ ^o mode oscillator in Ka-band is given. Its oscillation frequency and output power could be easily adjusted by changing the parameters of the excitor.     

New generalized computations of quasi-planar waveguides characteristics

An efficient hybrid field solution to the general multilayer substrates transmission line problems with full shielded and half open cross-sectional geometry is presented by using the waveguide modes coupling and decoupling procedure in the spectral domain. Modal transverse transmission lines corresponding to the LSE and LSM modes are taken into account so that the Green's elements for the edge conditions can be derived by a simple iterative method. In this paper, we analyze not only the propagation constants and characteristic impedances but also the available transmission power capacity and power distribution of most commonly used structures. Normalized eigenmode power levels characterizing the propagation features are computed.     

Steady State Responses of NRD-Guide Crossbar Balanced Mixer in MM-Wave Band

The periodic and quasi-periodic steady states of the nonradiative dielectric waveguide (NRD-guide) crossbar single-balanced mixer excited by single tone or dual tones in mm-wave band are deeply researched in the paper. Based on the wideband dispersion characteristics, the mode self-contained property and the modes orthogonality and a series of modes excitation criterions of the NRD-guide, a novel mixer is designed and analyzed. Two important parameters, the local oscillator and incident wave inductive electromotive forces corresponding to the LSE/LSM mode-converter and LSM-mode probe respectively, are calculated firstly by using the wire-antenna theory and the moment method. According to the theorem of band-pass signal sampling, a kind of integrated and general quasi-periodical steady-state responses algorithm for the nonlinear microwave/mm-wave circuits excited by multiple tones, the inter-modulation balance method based on the multi-dimension discrete Fourier transformation (MDFT-IMB), is designed and then successfully applied to calculate the performances of the above NRD-guide mixer.     

Origin of Negative Imaginary Part of Effective Permittivity of Passive Materials

The anti-resonant phenomenon of effective electromagnetic parameters of metamaterials has aroused controversy due to negative imaginary permittivity or permeability. It is experimentally found that the negative imaginary permittivity can occur for the natural passive materials near the Fabry-Perot resonances. We reveal the nature of negative imaginary permittivity, which is correlated with the magnetoelectric coupling. The anti-resonance of permittivity is a non-inherent feature for passive materials, while it can be inherent for devices or metamaterials.Our finding validates that the negative imaginary part of effective permittivity does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics for metamaterials owing to the magnetoelectric coupling.     

A Noteworthy Trap in Using the EDC Method for Solving Dielectric Waveguide Problems

EDC method is probably the simplest method to obtain a good approximation for the propagation constant of a dielectric waveguide. It is well know that there are two ways to perform the EDC procedure: one is to treat the LSE mode first then the LSM mode and the other is just reverse. It is true that the difference between the results got from the two ways is usually rather small and thus both of them are good approximations. In this paper, we show that in some cases the two ways will lead to much different results; one is still a good approximation while the other is completely unacceptable. The theoretical analysis tells us that if performing the LSM mode first then with the LSE mode will usually get a good result.     

Low loss negative index metamaterials with one type of meta-atom

Metamaterial building blocks from microwave to optical range are mainly based on metal-dielectric composites. In almost all structures with true negative index (not coming from losses), two kinds of meta-atoms (electric and magnetic) are mixed to drive simultaneously the effective permittivity and permeability to negative values leading in turn to a negative index of refraction. In this paper, we show that two coupled structures with localized plasmons modes (e.g. cut-wires or split ring resonators) can exhibit negative refractive index by their own, by appropriately controlling the hybridization scheme of the plasmons modes. Because of small metal filling factor and reduced optical losses, the resulting structures may pave the way to realistic applications of metamaterials at optical frequencies.