Title :
Design optimization of meta-material transmission lines for linear and non-linear microwave signal processing
Author :
Simion, Stefan ; Marcelli, Romolo ; Bartolucci, Giancarlo ; Proietti, Emanuela ; De Angelis, Giorgio ; Lucibello, Andrea
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. for R&D in Microtechnol., Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
The possibility to use CRLH (Composite Right/Left-Handed) cells to realize both distributed wide-band filters for linear signal processing and non-linear devices like frequency doublers is investigated analytically and numerically. Full-wave electromagnetic simulations are performed for the filtering structure by means of a commercial software package and confirm the validity of the analytic results. Numerical results for CRLH NLTL (Non-Linear Transmission Line) obtained by using the Microwave Office are discussed, providing design considerations about the synthesis of such a component.
Keywords :
filtering theory; metamaterials; optimisation; signal processing; transmission lines; Microwave Office; commercial software package; composite right/left-handed cells; design optimization; distributed wide-band filters; filtering structure; frequency doublers; linear signal processing; meta-material transmission lines; nonlinear devices; nonlinear microwave signal processing; nonlinear transmission line; Band pass filters; Capacitance; Capacitors; Microwave filters; Power transmission lines; Resonant frequency; Resonator filters;
Conference_Titel :
Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2010 35th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6655-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICIMW.2010.5612958
