金属目标表面气体放电单元放电过程的PIC-MCC模拟

 对目标表面的浮地导体边界的存在及其对单元气体放电过程所产生的影响进行了研究，针对导体边界条件，应用高斯定理和电荷守恒定律推导出这种边界条件的数值处理方法，得到了有界等离子体空间电势的数值分布。电场的数值计算表明，浮地导体的电势随着内部场的变化而变化，其大小介于两个电极的电势之间，对放电区域的电场分布产生较大的影响。 对金属目标表面放电单元的放电过程的PIC-MCC模拟结果表明， 浮地导体的存在能够改变放电空间的电场结构，形成不均匀场，有利于气体的电离和等离子体区域的形成，同时将使虚阳极所形成的电势平台在边界附近下陷，导致等离子体壳层的厚度变小。     

Lowering plasma frequency by enhancing the effective mass of electrons： A route to deep sub-wavelength metamaterials

Deep sub-wavelength metamaterials are the key to the further development of practical metamaterials with small volumes and broadband properties. We propose to reduce the electrical sizes of metamaterials down to more sub-wavelength scales by lowering the plasma frequencies of metallic wires. The theoretical model is firstly established by analyzing the plasma frequency of continuous thin wires. By introducing more inductance elements, the effective electron mass can be enhanced drastically, leading to significantly lowered plasma frequencies. Based on this theory, we demonstrate that both the electric and the magnetic plasma frequencies of metamaterials can be lowered significantly and thus the electrical sizes of metamaterials can be reduced to more sub-wavelength scales. This provides an efficient route to deep sub-wavelength metamaterials and will give rigorous impetus for the further development of practical metamaterials.     

All-dielectric left-handed metamaterial based on dielectric resonator: design, simulation and experiment

Dipoles with Lorentz-type resonant electromagnetic responses can realise negative effective parameters in their negative resonant region. The electric dipole and magnetic dipole can realise, respectively, negative permittivity and negative permeability, so both the field distribution forms of electric and magnetic dipoles are fundamentals in designing left-handed metamaterial. Based on this principle, this paper studies the field distribution in high-permittivity dielectric materials. The field distributions at different resonant modes are analysed based on the dielectric resonator theory. The origination and influence factors of the electric and magnetic dipoles are confirmed. Numerical simulations indicate that by combining dielectric cubes with different sizes, the electric resonance frequency and magnetic resonance frequency can be superposed. Finally, experiments are carried out to verify the feasibility of all-dielectric left-handed metamaterial composed by this means.     

Dual-band frequency selective surface with large band separation and stable performance

A new technique of designing a dual-band frequency selective surface with large band separation is presented.This technique is based on a delicately designed topology of L-and Ku-band microwave filters.The two band-pass responses are generated by a capacitively-loaded square-loop frequency selective surface and an aperture-coupled frequency selective surface,respectively.A Faraday cage is located between the two frequency selective surface structures to eliminate undesired couplings.Based on this technique,a dual-band frequency selective surface with large band separation is designed,which possesses large band separation,high selectivity,and stable performance under various incident angles and different polarizations.     

A Method of Analyzing Transmission Losses in Left-Handed Metamaterials

A method of analyzing transmission loss in left-handed metamaterials （LHMs） is proposed. As a demonstration of this method, transmission loss of LHMs composed of split-ring resonators （SRR） and conducting wires is studied. By means of retrieving and analyzing the effective constitutive parameters, different transmission losses as well as their origins are studied. The results show that the left-handed bandwidth is narrowed because of high loss caused by the non-zero high imaginary parts of the effective permeability and permittivity. In the effective left-handed band, the radiation loss is very low and can be neglected, and the transmission losses are the sum of the substrate loss and the ohmic loss. Moreover, when the dielectric loss tangent of the substrate is greater than 0.003, the substrate loss is higher than the ohmic loss.     

The design of metamaterial cloaks embedded in anisotropic medium

By using coordinate transformation method, this paper obtains an useful equation of designing meta-material cloaks embedded in anisotropic medium. This equation is the generalization of what was introduced early by Pendry et al (2006 \textit{Science} {312 1780) and can be more widely used. As an example of its applications, this paper deduces the material parameter equation for cylinder cloaks embedded in anisotropic medium, and then offers the numerical simulation. The results show that such a cylinder cloak has perfect cloaking performance and therefore verifies the method proposed in this paper.     

Material parameter equation for rotating elliptical spherical cloaks

By using the coordinate transformation method, we have deduced the material parameter equation for rotating elliptical spherical cloaks and carried out simulation as well. The results indicate that the rotating elliptical spherical cloaking shell, which is made of meta-materials whose permittivity and permeability are governed by the equation deduced in this paper, can achieve perfect invisibility by excluding electromagnetic fields from the internal region without disturbing any external field.     

Design of a varactor-tunable metamaterial absorber

In this paper, we design a varactor-tunable metamaterial absorber （MA）. The tunable MA is based on a mushroom-type high impedance surface （HIS）, in which varactors are loaded between adjacent metal patches to adjust the capacitance and tune the resonance frequency, the primary ground plane is etched as the bias network to bias all of the varactors in parallel, and another ultra-thin grounded film is attached to the bottom. Its absorption characteristics are realized for electrically dielectric loss. The simulated values of a sample indicate that a tunable frequency range from 2.85 GHz to 2.22 GHz is achieved by adjusting the varactor capacitance from 0.1 pF to 2.0 pF, and better than 0.97 absorbance is realized; in addition, the tunable frequency range is expanded from 4.12 GHz to 1.70 GHz after optimization.     

电谐振器和磁谐振器构成的左手材料的实验验证

加工、制作和测试了由电谐振器和磁谐振器构成的左手材料.首先分别测试了电谐振器、磁谐振器各自的传输频谱,得到各自的负参数区域,然后测试了由电谐振器和磁谐振器构成的左手材料的传输频谱,并提取了其等效介电常数和磁导率.实验结果表明,在电谐振器和磁谐振器各自传输禁带的重合区域,出现了一个通带,在该通带内,等效介电常数和磁导率同时为负,验证了材料的左手特性.     

基于单面金属结构的二维宽带左手材料

利用将磁谐振器与共面短金属导线相结合的思想,设计了一种基于单面金属结构的二维左手材料. 理论分析与仿真结果均表明该结构在某一频段同时具有负等效磁导率和负等效介电常数,并且相对左手带宽达到36%. 此外,该结构具有良好的容错能力,短金属导线宽度的变化对整体结构的谐振频率及通带宽度影响很小,这不仅有利于实际加工而且对于设计红外及太赫兹频率范围下的左手材料具有参考价值. 关键词： 左手材料 磁谐振器 宽频带 容错性