Concept of Virtual Electric/Magnetic Walls and its Realization With Artificial Magnetic Conductor Technique

Author

Li, Duochuan C. ; Boone, Francois ; Bozzi, Maurizio ; Perregrini, Luca ; Wu, Ke

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC

Volume

18

Issue

11

fYear

2008

Firstpage

743

Lastpage

745

Abstract

In this letter, we present a novel concept of virtual electric/magnetic walls which are formed by combining perfect electric conducting parallel plates and perfect magnetic conducting parallel plates. In practice, the perfect magnetic wall can be replaced with an artificial magnetic conductor surface. Two types of complementary transverse electromagnetic waveguides are built with the virtual electric/magnetic walls. The field distribution in the waveguide was simulated and measured. The existence of virtual electric wall was verified.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave propagation; artificial magnetic conductor; complementary transverse electromagnetic waveguides; electric conducting parallel plates; magnetic conducting parallel plates; virtual electric wall; virtual magnetic walls; Bandwidth; Conductors; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic waveguides; Magnetic confinement; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic resonance; Planar waveguides; Rectangular waveguides; Surface waves; Artificial magnetic conductors (AMCs); perfect magnetic conductors (PMCs); transverse electromagnetic (TEM) waveguides; virtual electric/magnetic walls (VE/MWs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2008.2005229

Filename

4666749