“工”字型径向弹性超材料零频起始带隙特性研究

为了得到零频起始带隙,提出"工"字型径向弹性超材料,并研究了其不同约束状态下弹性波的传播特性。通过对色散关系,频响函数和本征模位移场计算研究,发现在双面约束状态下可产生0~16 849 Hz的零频起始宽频带隙,主要由约束作用引起的模态转变产生。进一步,通过研究有限周期结构的方向振动位移场,发现零频起始带隙产生的机制为局域共振机制。最后,分析了结构参数对零频带隙位置及带宽的影响。研究结论可以应用于超低频减振等工程领域。     

基于MEMS工艺的异性材料定向天线

制备了一种基于MEMS工艺的定向天线。以异性材料为基底的亚波长谐振腔结构有效降低了天线体积。这种天线可以用于要求高能量密度的微系统的能量传送。本文中的天线厚度为1.5mm,可工作于10GHz频段。这使得其易于与微系统集成。文中也给出了仿真及实验的结果,并介绍了天线的加工过程。     

Plasmon-induced transparency in terahertz metamaterials

The quantum phenomena of electromagneticalty induced transparency （EIT） or plasmonic ana- logue of electromagnetically induced transparency （PIT） can be mimicked in the classical resonators, leading to a unique way to explore the coherent coupling mechanism in metamaterial systems. Various metamaterial structures have been proposed to excite and manipulate the PIT effect with flexibility and performance with geometry-controllable, polarizatiomindependent, broadband-transparency and active-modulated characteristics. These in turn promise the fascinating functionalities and applications of the PIT effects, such as slow-light com- ponents, nonlinear devices and high-sensitivity sensors. Here, we present a review on the progress in developing the PIT effect in terahertz metamaterials over the past few years.     

基于超材料的椭圆波束馈源技术研究

针对传统工程用椭圆波束馈源带宽窄、加工难度大等问题,设计了一种新型的椭圆波束馈源,即在角锥喇叭内壁加载超材料层,使得馈源在水平极化和垂直极化两个极化辐射相同椭圆外形的波束。根据阻抗匹配原理,当电磁波水平极化和垂直极化入射时波阻抗的乘积与真空中波阻抗乘积相等时,超材料单元的性能达到最优,将优化后的超材料单元周期排布为超材料层加载到喇叭内壁,即可形成椭圆波束馈源。在Grasp软件中仿真计算了该馈源作为前馈馈源和后馈馈源使用时,反射面天线的电气性能。仿真结果表明：在工作频带10.95GHz-14.5GHz内,基于超材料的椭圆波束馈源实现了良好的极化波束等化,波束宽度比在0.9-1.14之间,驻波小于1.55。前馈照射反射面时,天线效率在65%-75%之间,交叉极化电平低于-30dB;后馈照射反射面时,天线效率在61%-72%之间,交叉极化电平低于-30dB,验证了馈源设计的可行性。     

Broadband cloaking with transmission‐line networks and metamaterial

Cloaking objects by transmission line and metamaterial is presented. Simulation results reveal that the bandwidth of this method is increased by embedding the transmission networks in a medium whose refractive index is smaller than unity. The low refractive index medium is realized by embedding thin wires in a host medium. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE 22: 663–668, 2012.     

应用超常介质设计柱形隐形容器

超常介质是一种纳米尺度的人工复合材料,可以同时设定材料的介电常数和磁导率。利用超常介质的这一特性,能够自由地调整光的传播路径。在此基础上,应用坐标转换的方法,计算出圆柱形和椭圆柱形的介电常数和磁导率分布,让光在介质内沿着特定的轨迹传播,绕过包围的空腔,沿入射的方向出射,从而实现圆柱和椭圆柱形状的隐形。     

基于微带传输线的由特异材料构成的一维光子晶体

通过左右手复合传输线(CRLH TLs)实现了一维的特异材料(Metamaterials),基于Metamaterials单元构成了光子晶体,并分析、测试了其传输特性.实验结果表明,由特异材料构成的一维光子晶体具有Bragg 带隙和等效的单负带隙.当晶格尺度同比例改变时,等效的单负带隙基本上不发生移动,并且带边分别由零平均介电常数ε-=0和零平均磁导率μ-=0决定.零平均折射率 (zero-n-)带隙和零有效相位(zero-Φeff)带隙可以理解为一种等效的单负带隙.对由Metamaterials构成的一维光子晶体传输特性的研究,有助于Metamaterials在射频/微波电路和仪器中的应用.     

A new nonexpandable surface mapping for the design of spherically conformal metamaterial absorbers

The direct design of metamaterial absorbers for the nonplanar surface is cumbersome and inefficient. A new mapping between nonexpandable surfaces and plane structures is proposed, in which the size of geometry on the unit is scaled to avoid the overlap after the mapping. Utilizing this mapping, it is easy to realize the metamaterial absorbers for nonexpandable surfaces, such as the spherical surface, while maintaining or even getting better performance by adopting the genetic algorithm combined with the load‐resistors matrix decomposition method. A prototype has been fabricated by 3D printing technology to precisely locate the units on the spherical crown. The simulation and experimental results show that the designed structure has broadband absorbing bandwidth in the 2.7 to 8.2 GHz for 10 dB radar cross‐section reduction under the normal incidence. This prototype also has good polarization and incident angle stability.     

Application of metamaterials for performance enhancement of planar antennas: A review

Metamaterials are assemblies of metallic and/or dielectric materials with properties that are not readily found in naturally existing materials. Hence, metamaterial structures are commonly loaded on/near the patch, embedded in the substrate, loaded/etched from the ground plane or placed as a superstrate layer for enhancing bandwidth and gain, and size miniaturization of conventional patch antennas. The demand for wide bandwidth, high gain, and compact antennas is highly contemplated in recent wireless communication research studies. Despite their lightweight, ease of fabrication, low profile, and simplicity for integration, patch antennas have performance limitations as result of their narrow bandwidth, lower gain, larger size, and lower power handling capacity. To address these problems, metamaterial‐based antennas have gained massive interest. There exist inadequate literatures about review of current state of extensive study reports on metamaterial application for patch antenna performance enhancement. Thus, this paper has reviewed and discussed latest research works on metamaterial applications for performance enhancement of planar patch antennas.     

特异材料对矩形波导导波模式的影响

基于马卡提里假设,推导了特异材料为外包层的矩形波导的模式特征方程。对外包层为ENG材料的矩形波导的Ex mn模研究表明,这种波导不仅支持横向振荡导模的存在,还支持x轴向上表面模的存在（当m=1,2时）。同时还发现,随着阶数m或n的增大,不同Ex mn模的色散曲线均向高频方向移动。绘制了各模式的空间电磁场分布,发现横向表面模的存在,使其电场能量主要局域在界面处,这些特性均异于常规材料矩形波导。