This thesis introduces, for the first time, a novel 4-bit, metal-oxide-metal (MOM) digital capacitor switching array (MOMDCSA) which has been implemented into a wideband CMOS voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) for 5 GHz WiMAX/WLAN applications. The proposed MOMDCSA is added both in series and parallel to nMOS varactors. For further gain linearity, a wider tuning range and minor phase noise variations, this varactor bank is connected in parallel to four nMOS varactor pairs, each of which is biased at a different voltage. Thus, VCO tuning gain reduces and optimal phase noise variation is obtained across a wide range of frequencies. Based on this premise, a wideband VCO is achieved with low phase noise variation of less than 4.7 dBc/Hz. The proposed VCO has been designed using UMC 130 nm CMOS technology. It operates from 3.45 GHz to 6.23 GHz, with a phase noise of -133.80 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset, a figure of merit (FoM) of -203.5 dBc/Hz. A novel microstrip low-phase noise oscillator is based on a left-handed (LH) metamaterial bandpass filter which is embedded in the feedback loop of the oscillator. The oscillator is designed at a complex quality factor Qsc peak frequency, to achieve excellent phase noise performance. At a centre frequency of 2.05 GHz, the reported oscillator demonstrates, experimentally, a phase noise of -126.7 dBc/Hz at a 100 kHz frequency offset and a FoM of -207.2 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz frequency offset. The increasing demands have been placed on the electromagnetic compatibility performance of VCO devices is crucial. Therefore, this thesis extends the potential of highly flexible and conductive graphene laminate to the application of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. Graphene nanoflake-based conductive ink is printed on paper, and then it is compressed to form graphene laminate with a conductivity of 0.43×105 S/m. Shielding effectiveness is experimentally measured at above 32 dB as being between 12GHz and 18GHz, even though the thickness of the graphene laminate is only 7.7µm. This result demonstrates that graphene has great potential for offering lightweight, low-cost, flexible and environmentally friendly shielding materials which can be extended to offering required shielding from electromagnetic interference (EMI), not only for VCO phase noise optimisation, but also for sensitive electronic devices.

The sight of work is study form high frequency electromagnetic wave in inhomogeneous materials. The main are refractions and reflection on boundary of materials with different properties and form electromagnetic wave in periodic structure. The work contain analytic and numeric solution. The numeric solution was realized in program COMSOL.

La demande croissante en composants optoélectroniques de taille réduite, rapides, de faible puissance et à faible coût oriente la recherche vers des sources et détecteurs de radiation ayant une dimension inférieure à la longueur d'onde émise/détectée. Cette dernière est entravée par la limite de diffraction qui fixe la dimension minimale des dispositifs optiques à la moitié de la longueur d'onde de fonctionnement. A l'inverse, les dispositifs électroniques, tels que les antennes et les oscillateurs, ne sont pas limitée en taille et leur fréquence peut être accordée par des composants discrets. Par conséquent, unifier les mondes de la photonique et de l'électronique permettrait de concevoir de nouveaux dispositifs optoélectroniques sans limitation de taille imposée par la longueur d'onde et ayant des fonctionnalités empruntées aux circuits électroniques. La région spectrale idéale pour développer ce paradigme est la gamme térahertz (THz), à mi-chemin entre les domaines de l'électronique et de l'optique. Dans la première partie de ces travaux, nous présentons de nouveaux micro-résonateurs sub-longueur d’onde en 3D qui fonctionnent comme des circuits LC microscopiques et où la fréquence de résonance peut être accordée en agissant séparément sur la région capacitive et/ou inductive. Dans la deuxième partie, nous illustrons la puissance de cette approche en réalisant de nouveaux méta-dispositifs THz passifs (polaritoniques, commutables optiquement, optiquement actifs) basés sur des composants discrets. La dernière partie de cette thèse est consacrée aux méta-dispositifs actifs. Des photodétecteurs THz à puits quantiques ayant une dimension ≈λ eff /10, en configuration objet unique et réseau sont démontrées, grâce à un schéma de contact efficace et originale pour extraire (injecter) un courant depuis (dans) le cœur semi-conducteur intégré dans chaque résonateur. Enfin, une étude de faisabilité d'un laser sub-longueur d’onde aux fréquences THz est présentée. / The need for small, fast, low-power and low-cost optoelectronic components is driving the research towards radiation sources and detectors having a dimension that is smaller than the emitted/detected wavelength. This is hampered by the optical diffraction limit which constrains the minimum dimension of optical devices at half the operating wavelength. Conversely, electronic devices, such as antennas and oscillating circuits, are not diffraction-limited in size and can be frequency tuned with lumped components. Hence, blending the worlds of photonics and electronics has the potential to enable novel optoelectronic devices with no lower size limit imposed by the wavelength, and with novel functionalities borrowed from electronic circuits. The ideal spectral region to develop this paradigm is the terahertz (THz) range, halfway between the electronics and optics realms. In the first part of this work, we present novel subwavelength 3D micro-resonators that behave as microscopic LC circuits, where the resonant frequency can be tuned acting separately on the capacitive and/or inductive regions. In the second part we illustrate the power of this concept by implementing novel lumped-elements-based passive THz meta-devices (polaritonic, optically switchable, optically active). The last part of this thesis is devoted to active meta-devices. Single-pixel and arrays of THz quantum well photodetectors featuring a ≈λeff/10 dimension are demonstrated, thanks also to an effective and original contact scheme to extract (inject) current from (into) the semiconductor core embedded by each resonator. Finally, a feasibility study of a subwavelength laser at THz frequencies is reported.

Les dispositifs optoélectroniques sont importants pour nombreuses applications de la vie de tous les jours : ordinateurs, téléphones, les objets connectés en général. La gamme spectrale du THz (0.1-10 THz) reste cependant un domaine industriellement peu exploité en raison de problèmes intrinsèques à la génération et détection des photons THz.De nombreuses applications relèvent pourtant du THz, dans les domaines médicaux par exemple, pour la détection des gaz à l’état de trace, ou bien pour l’imagerie d’objets opaques dans le visible.Cette thèse se focalise sur les photodétecteurs à puits quantiques (QWIPs) et les lasers à cascade quantique (QCLs) fonctionnant dans la gamme du THz dans le but de développer des dispositifs compacts, rapides et sensibles (mais fonctionnant à températures cryogéniques). Nous avons utilisé des résonateurs à anneau fendu, inspirés des travaux sur les métamatériaux, pour concevoir et développer des détecteurs sub-longueur d’onde accordables en fréquence dans la gamme spectrale du térahertz grâce à une inductance externe. En ce qui concerne les émetteurs, cette thèse étudie les micro-lasers THz qui utilisent des résonateurs de type microdisques, avec pour but de concevoir et fabriquer des lasers fonctionnant sur le mode électromagnétique fondamental. Les futures perspectives de ce travail concernent la réalisation d’un laser entièrement sub-longueur d’onde et rapide dans la gamme spectrale du THz. / Optoelectronic devices are crucial for many applications in everyday life: computers, smartphones, connected objects in general.The THz range (0.1-10 THz) still remains industrially unexploited because of the intrinsic difficulties to produce or generate THz photons. However, many applications exist for THz radiation : in the medical field for example, for the sensitive detection of gases, or for the imaging of concealed objects in the visible range.This thesis focuses on quantum well photodetectors (QWIPs) and quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) operating in the THz range in order to develop compact, fast and sensitive devices (but operating at cryogenic temperatures).We used Split Ring Resonators (SRR), inspired by metamaterial research, in order to design and develop subwavelength tunable THz detectors with an external inductance.Concerning lasers, this thesis studies THz micro-lasers using microdisk resonators with the aim of designing and manufacturing lasers operating on the fundamental electromagnetic mode (dipolar mode). The future perspective of this work is to build an entirely sub-wavelength and fast laser in the THz spectral range.

Nous nous intéressons à des problèmes de transmission entre diélectriques et métamatériaux, milieux présentant des propriétés électromagnétiques inhabituelles comme des caractéristiques effectives négatives à certaines fréquences. Par exemple, ces milieux peuvent être construits comme des assemblages périodiques de microstructures résonantes et dans ce cas la théorie de l'homogénéisation permet de justifier mathématiquement ces propriétés effectives. En régime harmonique et dans des géométries à variables séparables, des calculs analytiques peuvent être menés. Ils révèlent dans des cas dits critiques des difficultés mathématiques: les solutions n'ont pas la régularité standard, voire le problème peut être mal posé.La première partie étudie ces problèmes de transmission en régime temporel pour lequel les métamatériaux sont modélisés par des modèles dispersifs (modèle de Drude ou de Lorentz). Les difficultés résident dans le choix d'un schéma de discrétisation mais surtout dans la construction de conditions absorbantes. La méthode retenue ici est celle des Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs). Comme les PMLs classiques sont instables pour ces modèles du fait de la présence d'ondes inverses, nous proposons une nouvelle classe de PMLs pour lesquelles nous menons une analyse de stabilité. Cette dernière permet de construire des PMLs stables. Elles sont ensuite utilisées pour simuler le comportement en temps long d'un problème de transmission; nous illustrons alors le fait que le principe d'amplitude limite peut être mis en défaut en raison de résonances d'interface.La deuxième partie vise à pallier ces phénomènes d'interface en régime harmonique en revenant sur le processus d'homogénéisation classique, pour un milieu dissipatif. Pour des problèmes de transmission, il est connu que les modèles issus de cette méthode perdent en précision du fait de la présence de couches limites à l'interface. Nous proposons un modèle enrichi au niveau de l'interface. En combinant la méthode d'homogénéisation double-échelle et celle des développements asymptotiques raccordés, nous construisons des conditions de transmission non standards faisant intervenir des opérateurs différentiels le long de l'interface. Le calcul de ces conditions nécessite la résolution de problèmes de cellule et de problèmes non standards posés dans des bandes périodiques infinies. Une analyse d'erreur confirme l'amélioration de la précision du modèle. Des simulations numériques illustrent l'efficacité de ces nouvelles conditions. Enfin, cette démarche est reproduite formellement dans le cas des matériaux à fort contraste se comportant comme des métamatériaux. Nous montrons alors que ces nouvelles conditions permettent de régulariser le problème de transmission dans les cas critiques. / We are interested in transmission problems between dielectrics and metamaterials, that is to say media with unusual electromagnetic properties such as negative constants at some frequencies. These media are often made of periodic assemblies of resonant micro-structures and in this case the homogenization theory can justify mathematically these effective properties. A preliminary part deals with these problems in the harmonic domain and in geometry with separation of variables.Analytical computations are done and reveal in the so-called critical cases some mathematical diffculties: the solutions do not have the standard regularity and the problem can even be ill-posed.The first part examines these transmission problems in the time domain for which metamaterials are modelled by dispersive models (Drude model or Lorentz model for instance). The diffculties reside in the choice of a discretization scheme but especially in the construction of absorbing conditions. The method used here is the use of Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs). Since classical PMLs are unstable for these models due to the presence of backward waves, we propose a new class of PMLs for which we conduct a stability analysis. The latter allows us to build stable PMLs. They are then used to simulate the long-time behaviour of a transmission problem; we illustrate the fact that the limit amplitude principle can be faulted because of interface resonances.The second part aims to overcome these phenomena by coming back to the classical homogenization in the harmonic domain, for dissipative media. For transmission problems, it is known that models resulting from this method lose accuracy due to the presence of boundary layers at the interface. We propose an enriched model at the interface: by combining the method of two-scale homogenization and that of matched asymptotic expansions, we build non-standard transmission conditions involving tangential derivatives along the interface (Laplace-Beltrami operators). This requires to solve cell problems and non-standardproblems in infinite periodic bands. An error analysis confirms the improvement of the accuracy of the model and numerical simulations show the effectiveness of these new conditions. Finally, this approach is formally reproduced in the case of high contrast materials which behave like metamaterials. We show that these new conditions regularise the transmission problem in the critical cases.

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Light interaction with matter has long been an area of interest throughout history, spanning many fields of study. In recent decades, the investigation of light-matter interactions with nanostructures has become an intense area of research in the field of photonics. Metallic nanostructures, in particular, are of interest due to the interesting properties that arise when interacting with light. The properties are a result of the excitation of surface plasmons which are the collective oscillation of the conduction electrons in the metal. Since the conduction electrons can be thought of as harmonic oscillators, they are quantized in a similar fashion. Just as a photon is a quantum of oscillations of an electromagnetic field, the plasmon is a quantum of electron oscillations of a metal. There are three types of plasmons: 1. Bulk plasmons, also called volume plasmons, are longitudinal density fluctuations which propagate through a bulk metal with an eigenfrequency of �� called the plasma frequency. 2. Localized surface plasmons are non-propagating excitations of the conduction electrons of a metallic nanoparticle coupled to an electromagnetic field. 3. Surface plasmon polaritons are evanescent, dispersive propagating electromagnetic waves formed by a coupled state between a photon and the excitation of the surface plasmons. They propagate along the surface of a metal-dielectric interface with a broad spectrum of eigenfrequencies from � = 0 to � = ��⁄√2. iv Plasmonics is a subfield of photonics which focuses on the study of surface plasmons and the optical properties that result from light interacting with metal films and nanostructures on the deep subwavelength scale. In this thesis, plasmonic nanostructures are investigated for optical waveguides and other nanophotonic applications through computational simulations primarily base on electrodynamic theory. The theory was formulated by several key figures and established by James Clerk Maxwell after he published a set of relations which describe all classical electromagnetic phenomena, known as Maxwell’s equations. Using methods based on Maxwell’s equations, the optical properties of metallic nanostructures utilizing surface plasmons is explored. In Chapter 3, light propagation of bright and dark modes of a partially and fully illuminated silver nanorod is investigated for waveguide applications. Then, the origin of the Fano resonance line shape in the scattering spectra of a silver nanorod is investigated. Next, in Chapter 4, the reflection and transmission of a multilayer silver film is simulated to observe the effects of varying the dielectric media between the layers on light propagation. Building on the multilayer film work, metal-insulator-metal waveguides are explored by perforating holes in the bottom layer of a two layer a silver film to investigate the limits of subwavelength light trapping, confinement, and propagation. Lastly, in Chapter 5, the effect of surface plasmons on the propagation direction of electromagnetic wave around a spherical silver nanoparticle which shows an effective negative index of refraction is examined. In addition, light manipulation using a film of silver prisms with an effective negative index of refraction is also investigated. The silver prisms demonstrate v polarization selective propagation for waveguide and optical filter applications. These studies provide insight into plasmonic mechanisms utilized to overcome the diffraction limit of light. Through better understanding of how to manipulating light with plasmonic nanostructures, further advancements in nanophotonic technologies for applications such as extremely subwavelength waveguides, sensitive optical detection, optical filters, polarizers, beam splitters, optical data storage devices, high speed data transmission, and integrated subwavelength photonic circuits can be achieved.

<p>Composite materials have been invented and used to make all kinds of industrial products, such as automobiles, aircraft, sports equipment etc., for many years. Excellent properties such as high specific stiffness and strength have been recognized and studied for decades, motivating the use of composite materials. However, the design of composite structures still remains a challenge. Existing design tools are not adequate to exploit the full benefits of composites. Many tools are still based on the traditional material selection paradigm created for isotropic homogeneous materials, separated from the shape design. This will lose the coupling effects between composite materials and the geometry and lead to less optimum design of the structure. Hence, due to heterogeneity and anisotropy inherent in composites, it is necessary to model composite parts with appropriate microstructures  instead of simplistically replacing composites as black aluminum and consider materials and geometry at the same time.</p> <p><br></p> <p>This work mainly focuses on the design problems of complex material-structural systems through computational analyses. Complex material-structural systems are structures made of materials that have microstructures smaller than the overall structural dimension but still obeying the continuum assumption, such as fiber reinforced laminates, sandwich structures, and meta-materials, to name a few. This work aims to propose a new design-by-analysis framework based on the mechanics of structure genome (MSG), because of its capability in accurate and efficient predictions of effective properties  for different solid/structural models and three-dimensional local fields (stresses, strains, failure status, etc). The main task is to implement the proposed framework by developing new tools and integrating these tools into a complete design toolkit. The main contribution of this work is a new efficient high-fidelity design-by-analysis framework for complex material-structural systems.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The proposed design framework contains the following components. 1) MSG and its companion code SwiftComp is the theoretical foundation for structural analysis in this design framework. This is used to model the complex details of the composite structures. This approach provides engineers the flexibility to use different multiscale modeling strategies. 2) Structure Gene (SG) builder creates finite element-based model inputs for SwiftComp using design parameters defining the structure. This helps designers deal with realistic and meaningful engineering parameters directly without expert knowledge of finite element analysis. 3) Interface is developed using Python for easy access to needed data such as structural properties and failure status. This is used as the integrator linking all components and/or other tools outside this framework. 4) Design optimization methods and iteration controller are used for conducting the actual design studies such as parametric study, optimization, surrogate modeling, and uncertainty quantification. This is achieved by integrating Dakota into this framework. 5) Structural analysis tool is used for  computing global structural responses. This is used if an integrated MSG-based global analysis process is needed.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Several realistic design problems of composite structures are used to demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed framework. Parameter study of a simple fiber reinforce laminated structure is carried out for investigating the following: comparing with traditional design-by-analysis approaches, whether the new approach can bring new understandings on parameter-response relations and because of new parameterization methods and more accurate analysis results. A realistic helicopter rotor blade is used to demonstrate the optimization capability of this framework. The geometry and material of composite rotor blades are optimized to reach desired structural performance. The rotor blade is also used to show the capability of strength-based design using surrogate models of sectional failure criteria. A thin-walled composite shell structure is used to demonstrate the capability of designing variable stiffness structures by steering in-plane orientations of fibers of the laminate. Finally, the tool is used to study and design auxetic laminated composite materials which have negative Poisson's ratios.</p>