Microfabricated Left-handed Transmission Line Operating at 50 GHz

Author

Qin, Chao ; Kozyrev, Alexander B. ; Karbassi, Abdolreza ; Joshkin, Vladimir ; Van der Weide, Daniel W.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison

fYear

2007

fDate

3-8 June 2007

Firstpage

1145

Lastpage

1148

Abstract

We report a mushroom-type left-handed transmission line constructed using a microfabrication method, which also yields new opportunities to reduce the structure dimensions, and consequently, increase the operating frequency. Comprehensive characterization using both S-parameter measurement and full wave electromagnetic simulation shows a wide left-handed pass band between 37 and 60 GHz.

Keywords

energy gap; metamaterials; transmission lines; S-parameter measurement; electromagnetic bandgap structures; frequency 50 GHz; full wave electromagnetic simulation; left-handed materials; left-handed pass band; metamaterials; microfabrication method; mushroom-type left-handed transmission line; operating frequency; structure dimensions reduction; Capacitance; Circuits; Copper; Fabrication; Frequency; Inductance; Metamaterials; Periodic structures; Transmission line theory; Transmission lines; Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures; left-handed materials; metamaterials; microfabrication; transmission line;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium, 2007. IEEE/MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0688-9

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380332

Filename

4264031