异向介质材料的非线性研究进展

异向介质材料是由人工设计构造的、具有特异电磁特性的材料。其中同时具有负的介电常数ε及磁导率μ的称为左手材料或双负材料;仅有负的介电常数ε或负的磁导率口的称为单负材料。本文介绍了实现异向介质材料及其非线性特性的方法,重点综述了异向介质材料中SH产生、光孤子传输、波混频效应等方面的研究进展。     

异向介质材料的非线性研究进展

异向介质材料是由人工设计构造的、具有特异电磁特性的材料。其中同时具有负的介电常数ε及磁导率μ的称为左手材料或双负材料;仅有负的介电常数ε或负的磁导率μ的称为单负材料。本文介绍了实现异向介质材料及其非线性特性的方法,重点综述了异向介质材料中SH产生、光孤子传输、波混频效应等方面的研究进展。     

基于介质谐振器原理的左手材料设计

本文通过对高介电常数介质基于介质谐振器理论进行分析,明确了利用高介电常数介质产生负介电常数或负磁导率的途径在于介质中产生具有Lorentz谐振形式的电磁响应的电偶极子或磁偶极子,指出了这种偶极子的产生来源于电磁波在介质中形成的驻波,而左手通带的形成正是由于电偶极子和磁偶极子之间的相互影响,破坏了驻波形成的条件所实现的. 模拟结果表明,通过将尺寸相同,介电常数不同的介质进行组合,使二者电谐振和磁谐振的频率点重合从而实现左手通带,最后利用高介电常数,低损耗的陶瓷进行样品制作并测试,测试结果证实了基于这一原理实 关键词： 全介质左手材料 介质谐振器 磁偶极子 电偶极子     

单负介质薄板波导中的表面波模式

 推导了沿单负介质薄板波导传播表面波的特性,根据本征方程运用图解法得到沿介电常数为负的单负介质薄板传播的奇偶对称TM型表面波的色散曲线图和能流分布图。发现表面波在单负介质波导中传播比在双正或双负介质波导中慢,场和能量集中于介质板的上下表面, 一定频率范围内奇偶表面波型能流反向;单片单负介质板能实现功分器和定向耦合器的功能,简化了传统的复杂结构,在发展微波器件的小型化方面有着潜在的应用价值。     

一种双开口谐振环结构的新型双负介质

 提出了一种双开口谐振环结构的新型双负介质单元模型,该模型集电、磁谐振于一体,结构简单。用时域有限差分法和CST软件对该新型结构进行了模拟对比,并对其物理机理进行了分析,解释了其双负效应发生的原因。从电磁波理论出发,导出了波导中双负介质参数的反演公式,推广了通常提取介质参数的NRW方法,并由此提取了新型双负介质的等效电磁参数。结果表明：在频率10.3 GHz附近其等效介电常数和等效磁导率的实部同时为负值,确定了其双负效应的存在。     

新型小型化的平面左手介质微带线及其后向波特性验证

基于裂缝谐振环结构的降频技术,首先设计了一种电尺寸较小的左手介质微带线单元,并根据电磁波在微带线上的传输和反射数据,分别计算了左手介质的有效介电常数和有效磁导率.之后针对左手介质八元阵列进行三维电磁仿真实验,结果表明该八元阵列在左手介质频段上具有独特的后向波效应,从而证实了该左手介质频段的存在.与传统的左手介质微带单元相比,阐述的左手介质单元的电尺寸减小了60%,而且结构简单,便于加工,适用于平面电路器件的小型化等应用研究工作. 关键词： 左手介质 小型化 双负特性 后向波特性     

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     

左手介质对谐振腔谐振频率的影响

在谐振腔设计过程中, 谐振腔的品质因数以及谐振频率都是需要考虑的关键因素. 传统的方法是通过减小谐振腔的尺寸或者利用高次模来提高谐振腔的谐振频率, 但是由于两种方法都有其局限性, 导致设计结果并不理想. 通过理论计算与模拟仿真相结合的方法, 对影响谐振腔谐振频率的因素进行分析, 得出了填充介质的材料属性与谐振腔谐振频率的关系. 理论计算显示: 当用“左手介质”作为谐振腔的填充物质时, 可以在不改变谐振腔尺寸的基础上提高谐振频率. 高频结构仿真器(high frequency structure simulator)的仿真数据也证明了以上结果, 从而得出谐振腔的谐振频率可以不受谐振腔尺寸的限制. 相较于传统理论而言, 研究结论有进一步的发展, 为探索和设计新颖的谐振腔提供了理论依据.     

由同时具有磁谐振和电谐振结构组成的左手材料

为了在同一结构中同时实现负介电常数和负磁导率(双负),采用一种“巨”字形结构,利用丝网印刷技术在氧化铝基板上进行加工制作,并通过仿真和实验测试证实了这种结构的“双负”特性. 与利用磁谐振器和电谐振器组阵实现左手材料的方法相比,这种单一结构可以同时实现负介电常数和负磁导率,制作方便,等效电路简单,双负频段较宽. 利用丝网印刷技术进行样品的制作,工艺简单,成本低廉. 关键词： 左手材料 磁谐振 电谐振     

线电流源激励下正多边形双负介质柱的聚焦特性

 利用时域有限差分法分别分析了线电流源激励下,正三角形、正四边形和正六边形双负介质柱的近场分布。发现对于介电常数和磁导率都很小且无耗的双负介质柱,当激励位于正多边形顶角角平分线的外延长线上时,在双负介质柱内部不会出现 焦点。将该电磁模型同Arslanagic等人介绍的方法进行了比较,证明了电磁模型的有效性。     

Photon tunneling and transmittance resonance through a multi-layer structure with a left-handed materialvspace2pt

This paper investigates the photon tunneling and transmittance resonance through a multi-layer structure including a left-handed material(LHM). An analytical expression for the transmittance in a five-layer structure is given by the analytical transfer matrix method. The transmittance is studied as a function of the refractive index and the width of the LHM layer. The perfect photon tunneling results from the multi-layer structure, especially from the relation between the magnitude of the refractive index and the width of the LHM layer and those of the adjoining layers. Photons may tunnel through a much greater distance in this structure. Transmittance resonance happens, the peaks and valleys appear periodically at the resonance thickness. For an LHM with inherent losses, the perfect transmittance is suppressed.     

Multi-band left-handed metamaterial inspired by tree-shaped fractal geometry

We report an alternative method of designing a new metamaterial with left handed (LH) characteristics over multi-band (MB) frequencies at microwave frequency regime. The resultant LH metamaterial (LHM) consisting of a single-sided tree-shaped fractal structure features triple magnetic resonances and one electric resonance apart from the lower metal plasma response, which is responsible for the three bands of negative refraction. The multi-resonant mechanism has been systematically studied to account for all electromagnetic behaviors, and capacitor–inductor circuit models are put forward for quantitative analysis. The LHM is balanced in the fundamental passband when only one layer is utilized, whereas the balanced condition is slightly broken when a collection of sub-wavelength cells are cascaded. The negative-zero-positive refraction of the fundamental LH band and the negative refraction of the higher LH band have been numerically validated by a prism-like LHM. For demonstration, a three-layer LHM slab sample is fabricated and measured. Consistent numerical and experimental results are observed. The method not requiring individual resonant particles and electrically continuous wires paves the way for a new route to compact MB LHM design.     

Design and analysis of doped left-handed materials

We devise three sorts of doped left-handed materials （DLHMs） by introducing inductors and capacitors into the traditional left-handed material （LHM） as heterogeneous elements. Some new properties are presented through finitedifference time-domain （FDTD） simulations. On the one hand, the resonance in the traditional LHM is weakened and the original pass band is narrowed by introducing inductors. On the other hand, the original pass band of the LHM can be shifted and a new pass band can be generated by introducing capacitors. When capacitors and inductors are introduced simultaneously, the resonance of traditional LHM is somewhat weakened and the number of original pass bands as well as its bandwidth can be changed.     

A wide band left handed material with high transmission

In this study, we propose guidelines to optimize the transmission and bandwidth of left handed materials (LHM) composed of two-dimensional lattice of metallic wires interleaved with double split ring resonators (SRRs). Several LHM structures are fabricated to test the proposed rules of design and operate between 7 and 14 GHz. In a first step, we show that adding extra SRR layers within each period of wire layers (i.e. interleaving the wire lattice with several SRR lattices) increases the transmittance of the material. In a second step, we demonstrate that adding extra SRR layers in a non-equidistant manner (i.e. inserting several SRR lattices shifted one another by different distances) widens the LHM frequency bandwidth. The results of experimental characterization are found to be in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. A LHM behavior is obtained in a wide frequency band of 1 GHz around 8.2 GHz with a transmission of −1.2 dB measured at resonance. The negative refraction of the material is verified from measurements at oblique incidence.     

An ultra-small cavity resonator loaded with LHM and RHM layers

In this paper, an ultra-small cavity resonator (USCR) loaded with left-handed metamaterial (LHM) and right-handed material (RHM) layers is designed using a novel miniaturization approach. The resonant behavior is successfully observed, and the dimensions of the USCR are only 4.58 mm × 5.08 mm × 2.29 mm at the dominant resonance frequency of 10.3 GHz. Through the field distribution calculation, we confirmed that the miniaturization of the USCR arises from the left-handed property of the LHM. For a practical application, a miniaturized filter with overall length of 10.19 mm consisting of two USCRs is designed to confirm the frequency-selective characteristics. Results show that the filter has some narrow pass bands, which correspond to the resonant modes of the electromagnetic resonance in the USCR, and the insertion loss at the dominant resonance frequency of the USCR is as low as 0.65 dB. Moreover, the filtering characteristics of the filter can be controlled by changing its feeding loop positions in the USCR. PACS 78.70.Gq; 81.05.Zx; 84.40.Ba     

一种用于60 GHz通信的S型结构左手材料的设计

基于对S型结构的理论分析,将中心频率设置为60 GHz,通过合理的改变单元结构中相应的尺寸以实现所需电谐振和磁谐振频率,并且经过优化以实现负介电常量和负磁导率的重合频段尽可能理想. 运用反演参量提取方法进行电磁参量提取,可以得到本设计在58.1~61.4 GHz频段内其ε和μ同时为负,即左手频段. 分析散射参量的仿真结果,在58~62 GHz频段内S₂₁大于-3 dB,在59.8~60.4 GHz频段内,S₁₁小于-20 dB,因此该设计结果可以运用于60 GHz通信滤波器和天线等器件的研究与设计.     

二维各向同性异向介质负折射特性仿真验证

提出了一种工作在C波段的二维各向同性异向介质，相比于以往的二维异向介质，它除了具有二维各向同性的优点外，还具有带宽更宽，单元结构的尺寸更小，构造也更简单的特点.通过分别仿真验证异向介质的双负特性和负折射特性最终肯定上述异向介质的存在. 关键词： 各向同性异向介质 宽频带 小单元 双负特性     

Negative refraction and imaging beyond the diffraction limit by a two-dimensional left-handed metamaterial

We report our experimental results on two-dimensional left-handed metamaterials (LHM) exhibiting negative refraction and subwavelength imaging. Transmission and reflection spectra of LHM are studied and a left-handed transmission band is observed at the frequencies where both dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability are negative. Impedance matching is verified both with the experiments and simulations. The two-dimensional LHM structure is verified to have a negative refractive index. We employed three different methods to observe negative refraction; refraction through prism-shaped LHM, beam shifting method, and phase shift experiments. We further demonstrated subwavelength imaging and resolution using LHM superlenses. The effect of thickness on the resolving power is investigated experimentally.     

Numerical analysis of propagation characteristics of electromagnetic wave in lossy left-handed material media

The propagation characteristics of electromagnetic wave in lossy left-handed materials (LHM) are studied using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method base on auxiliary differential equation (ADE) technology. The LHM medium is realized with lossy Drude models for both the negative electric permittivity and the negative magnetic permeability. The discretized ADE-FDTD equations are derived in detail. The incident wave used in the simulation is a multiple cycle m-n-m pulses source. The term of Poynting's vector E_xH_y was calculated. These numerical results demonstrate conclusively that the phase velocity direction of electromagnetic wave propagation and the direction of the Poynting vectors are anti-parallel in LHM. The amplitude of electric field is reduced with the enhancive distance of LHM slab. It is also demonstrated that the energy of electromagnetic wave in the LHM slab is obviously attenuated, and the attenuation of energy becomes stronger with the angular plasma frequency ω_p increasing. These results indicate that LHM stealth is effective in theory, and reasonable selection of the large negative index of refraction can greatly enhance its effectiveness.     

Structure for localizing electromagnetic waves with a left-handed-medium slab and a conducting plane

A new structure is proposed for localizing electromagnetic waves and energies with a left-handed-medium (LHM) slab and a perfectly electrically conducting (PEC) plane. When a current source is placed in front of a perfectly matched LHM slab with negative permittivity -epsilon0 and negative permeability -mu0 and a PEC plane is placed at the image point, we show rigorously that all the electromagnetic waves are confined in a region between the source and the PEC plane, and the fields outside the region are completely zero. Such an energy-localization system would be useful in medical treatments that use concentrated optical and microwave energies. However, a perfectly matched LHM is unphysical and does not exist in nature. Hence we further study the loss and retardation effects of LHM on the energy localization. Numerical results are presented for the lossy LHM structure to demonstrate the energy localization.