Efficient Software Tool for the Analysis of Planar-Based Metamaterial Structures

Author

Soler, F.J.P. ; Pereira, Fernando D. Quesada ; Alvarez-Melcon, Alejandro ; Esbert, V.B. ; Martinez, Benito Gimeno

Author_Institution

Tech. Univ. of Cartagena, Cartagena

fYear

2007

fDate

11-16 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

We present a software tool specialized in the analysis of metamaterial structures based on planar circuits. The tool implements a formulation for open transversal multilayered structures, which reduces the number of unknowns employed in the problem. Besides, the formulation has been efficiently accelerated by means of a Kummer-like decomposition, extracting the singular behaviour of the Green´s functions from the frequency analysis. By means of this formulation, several different kinds of metamaterial structures built in coplanar and microstrip technologies are successfully analyzed, obtaining bandpass and stopband filter responses in a fast and accurate way.

Keywords

Green´s function methods; computational electromagnetics; metamaterials; microstrip circuits; Green function; bandpass filter; coplanar technology; frequency analysis; microstrip technology; planar-based metamaterial structure; software tool; stopband filter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-842-6

Type

conf

Filename

4459010