Novel Planar Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line with Double-Sided Metal Patterns

Shuji ASOU
Atsushi SANADA
Hiroshi KUBO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E89-C    No.9    pp.1299-1305
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.9.1299
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Metamaterials for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Applications)
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Keyword: 
metamaterials,  left-handed materials,  composite right/left-handed transmission lines,  balanced CRLH transmission lines,  

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Summary: 
A novel planar composite right/left handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) with double-sided metal patterns, which is advantageous in high scalability and low-cost fabrication, is proposed. Fundamental characteristics of the unbalanced and balanced CRLH TLs are confirmed numerically and theoretically both by full-wave finite-element method (FEM) simulations and the equivalent circuit analysis in terms of dispersion characteristics and characteristic impedances for the periodic structure. It is also shown that the relations between the left-handed circuit parameters and the geometrical parameters of the unit cell are simple and intuitive, which is useful for designing the CRLH TL. Experiments on 10-cell unbalanced and balanced CRLH TLs are carried out and the left-handed and right-handed wave propagations are confirmed by scattering parameter and near field measurements.