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Transmission line approach of zero-index metamaterials and applications using a wave concept iterative method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2019

Mohamed Karim Azizi ,
Taieb Elbellili ,
Henri Baudrand  and
Hichem Trabelsi
Mohamed Karim Azizi*
Affiliation:
Unit of Research Circuits and Electronics Systems High Frequency, Faculté des Sciences, Université El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Taieb Elbellili
Affiliation:
Unit of Research Circuits and Electronics Systems High Frequency, Faculté des Sciences, Université El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Henri Baudrand
Affiliation:
Laplace Lab, Department of Electronics, Faculty ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Hichem Trabelsi
Affiliation:
Unit of Research Circuits and Electronics Systems High Frequency, Faculté des Sciences, Université El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
*
Author for correspondence: Mohamed Karim Azizi, E-mail: medkarim.azizi@gmail.com
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel study of zero-index materials (ZIM) based on lumped element circuits using a wave concept iterative method (WCIP). This method is well used to demonstrate the behavior of zero-index-based microwave applications. This type of metamaterial can maintain the amplitude and the phase of an electromagnetic wave to be constant through the ZIM region, which is an important property to design an in-phase power divider-combiner, enhance the directivity of an embedded source, channel electromagnetic waves without reflection at the interface between waveguides with different cross-sections, and control the transmission of electromagnetic wave by the adjustment of the permittivity of a dielectric defect coated by zero-index metamaterial. The numerical simulations using the WCIP method match the literature and commercial software simulator results.

Keywords

2-D transmission line metamaterialselectromagnetic field distributionmetamaterialsWCIPzero-refractive index-metamaterials
Type
Research Papers
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , April 2019 , pp. 244 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2019 

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