Emerging Trends in Terahertz Metamaterial Applications

The terahertz spectrum of electromagnetic waves is finding its position in various applications of day to day life because of its unique properties, including the penetration through opaque materials. Naturally occurring materials in this range are rare due to the display of a natural breakpoint of both electric, and magnetic resonances in these materials. However recent advances in artificially engineered materials, which show resonance in this region are able to harness desirable properties in the terahertz region. In this paper, terahertz design and fabrication issues have been explored along with their applications. A brief review of metamaterial terahertz applications has been carried out including metamaterial absorbers, filters, modulators, switches, lenses, and cloaking structures. The various patterns of metamaterial unit cells are discussed elaborately along with the possibility of flexible active terahertz structures.     

Metamaterial superstrate-loaded meandered microstrip-based radiating structure for bandwidth enhancement

We have introduced metamaterial superstrate in microstrip-based radiating structure to increase its bandwidth. Split ring resonators are added as metamaterial metallic inclusion in superstrate of the conventional design. This changes the basic structure of the material. Material properties such as permittivity and permeability changed due to change in the structure. The change in its material properties enhances the bandwidth of the antenna. The antenna is meandered to achieve better performance at the edges which in a way improve the radiation path of the patch. Here, the proposed antenna works on three bands in the range 3–8?GHz. Maximum 60% bandwidth is enhanced in the third band. The voltage standing wave ratio and return loss (S₁₁) of the entire three bands are shown in the paper. The antenna works on 3.51, 4.86 and 7.8?GHz. Design results are obtained by high-frequency structure simulator which is used for simulating microwave passive components.     

Complementary Y-shaped chiral metamaterial with giant optical activity and circular dichroism simultaneously for terahertz waves

Abstract

A complementary Y-shaped chiral metamaterial (CYCMM) is proposed for the realization of giant optical activity and circular polarization with strong circular dichroism (CD) simultaneously for terahertz (THz) waves. It is demonstrated that the proposed CYCMM can achieve 90° linear polarization rotation around 2.13 THz and a giant CD effect at 2.38 THz through full-wave simulations. The mechanism of the giant CD effect and optical activity is illustrated by simulated surface current distribution. Due to strong optical activity and the CD effect, the proposed CYCMM is useful for the development of integrated terahertz spectroscopic and imaging devices.     

隐形斗篷的研究

基于坐标变换理论设计了菱形、不规则四边形和扇形隐形斗篷。利用COMSOL Mul-tiphysics对其进行仿真得到,覆盖斗篷后电磁场可以"拐弯"绕着物体走,斗篷内部区域未受到电磁场干扰,隐形效果均得到了较好的证实。这三种形状的隐形斗篷比圆柱形和球形斗篷更为常见,因而在减少物体的雷达散射截面(RCS)方面具有更为广泛的实用性。     

双阻带单负介质在带通滤波器中的应用

提出一种具有双阻带特性的单负介质并据此设计出小型化高性能的带通滤波器。首先对该单负介质单元进行等效电路分析并利用散射矩阵进行等效磁导率的提取,揭示了该异向介质单元的带阻工作原理和验证了其等效电路分析的合理性;然后在此基础上研究介质单元的结构参数对其传输性能的影响,据此设计出中心频率为10 GHz的带通滤波器具有非常紧凑的尺寸(25 mm×22.86 mm×10.16 mm)以及具有小于0.16 dB的通带损耗和良好的阻带抑制性能,这是常规介质滤波器所无法比拟的。     

超材料研究文献计量分析

超材料(Metamaterial)是一门日益兴起的新学科.近年来超材料及其应用技术正飞速发展,其研究论文及成果迅速增加.利用文献计量分析方法和汤姆森数据分析器(TDA)软件对超材料1998-2007年间的研究论文进行分析,主要包括研究论文的年代与国家分布、学科领域分布、研究机构分布、期刊分布、作者分布等,并对研究主题进行了分析.     

一种宽带吸波的隐身天线罩设计

传统的吸波材料无法使天线同时满足工作带外隐身和工作带内透波的特殊要求。文中结合传统吸波材料的吸波特性和频率选择表面的滤波特性,提出了一种超材料的宽带吸波的隐身天线罩。利用超材料的谐振叠加特性,设计出宽带人工吸波结构。采用阻抗匹配技术进一步提高天线在工作频带内的透过率,并提高天线带外的吸收率。通过调节超材料吸波体的尺寸,构造了一种Ku 频带透波、高于Ku 频段吸波的超材料天线罩,在保证天线带内正常通信前提下,可减小天线带外的雷达散射截面,提高机载天线的隐身性能。     

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。     

太赫兹超材料极化转换器设计及其特性分析

提出了一种反射型太赫兹超材料极化转换器.该极化转换器结构单元由典型的三层结构组成,上、下两层为金属层,中间为介质层,顶层金属层由一个开口谐振环和一个镂空圆盘组成.研究结果表明:该极化转换器能够将x极化波转换为y极化波,在0.584 0～1.352 0 THz频带上极化转换率大于80％,在0.642 4、0.936 4和1.301 8 THz处极化转换率接近100％.该极化转换器结构简单、便于加工,且能实现宽频带极化转换,在太赫兹波通信、成像等方面有广阔的应用前景.