Design, manufacture and measurement of a metamaterial with tunable negative-refractive index region

Author

Nicholson, Kelvin J. ; Ghorbani, Kamran

Author_Institution

Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Fishermans Bend, VIC, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1231

Lastpage

1233

Abstract

A metamaterial with electronically tunable negative-refractive index region is presented. The proposed structure is loaded with interdigital capacitors fabricated on a barium strontium titanate thin film. When a static electric field is applied to the series connected elements in the metamaterial, the region with negative refractive index is tuned over the WR-137 band. Computer simulation of the unit cell is presented. Experimental measurement of the completed structure in a parallel plate wave guide will be presented at APMC 2009.

Keywords

barium compounds; capacitors; dielectric thin films; metamaterials; microwave materials; refractive index; strontium compounds; waveguides; BaSrTiO₃; barium strontium titanate thin film; computer simulation; electronically tunable negative-refractive index region; interdigital capacitors; metamaterial; parallel plate waveguide; series connected elements; static electric field; Barium; Capacitors; Magnetic materials; Magnetic resonance; Manufacturing; Metamaterials; Permeability; Permittivity; Refractive index; Strontium; Metamaterial; barium strontium titanate; interdigital capacitors; negative index material; permeability; permittivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2009. APMC 2009. Asia Pacific

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2801-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2802-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2009.5384434

Filename

5384434