Left-Handed Material Composed of Planar Circuit-Type Resonators in a Waveguide

Hiroshi KUBO
Tsuyoshi MUKAI
Atsushi SANADA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E89-C    No.9    pp.1330-1336
Publication Date: 2006/09/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1353
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e89-c.9.1330
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: 
artificial material,  left-handed material,  matching,  negative permeability,  

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Summary: 
A compact, nonradiative, and easy fabricated left-handed material composed of planar circuit-type resonators in a cutoff waveguide is proposed. It is shown that the TE-type evanescent field is equivalent to the field in ε-negative material and the resonator works as a particle with negative permeability. The existence of a left-handed mode is ensured by a field distribution and a dispersion relation. After showing that the two constituents have an influence on the permittivity or the permeability of the material, on the basis of an idea of impedance, the material is matched to a conventional waveguide. Finally the material can be applied to a left-handed leaky-wave antenna.