Characterization of metamaterials using a new design and measurement technique for microstrip circuit applications

Author

Nesimoglu, Tayfun ; Sabah, Cumali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Middle East Tech. Univ., Guzelyurt, Cyprus

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Characterization of a metamaterial based on an S-Shaped resonator and a feeding transmission line using a new measurement technique is studied in this paper. First, the metamaterial is designed and simulated using conventional methods. Then, it is fabricated on microstrip and excited by using a microstrip transmission feedline. Measurements were carried out using a vector network analyzer by (SubMiniature version A) SMA coaxial terminations without needing any waveguide transmission lines. For both simulated and measured results, the effective constitutive parameters are retrieved and analyzed. Results show the practicality and feasibility of the proposed measurement method in the characterization of metamaterials for microstrip based microwave circuit applications.

Keywords

electromagnetic metamaterials; microstrip circuits; microstrip resonators; network analysers; SMA coaxial termination; feeding transmission line; measurement technique; metamaterial characterization; microstrip circuit application; microstrip transmission feedline; microwave circuit application; s-shaped resonator; subminiature version a; vector network analyzer; waveguide transmission line; Metamaterials; Microstrip; Microwave theory and techniques; Permeability; Permittivity; Resonant frequency; Transmission line measurements; PCB applications; metamaterial; negative refraction; using microstrip transmission line based method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2014 14th Mediterranean

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7390-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMS.2014.7088954

Filename

7088954