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The Analysis of Electrically Large Left-Handed Metamaterial Based on Mushroom Structure Using FDTD Approach

A full wave finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) combined with thin-wire and thin-slot algorithms to analyze a metamaterial fabricated with periodic mushroom structures, is proposed in this dissertation. This proposed method is suitable for analyzing problems involving large structures with fine structural details. A periodic analysis for mushroom structures is presented. Only a single unit mushroom cell is required to present the phenomena of infinite periodicity with the help of periodic boundary conditions (PBCs).
The composite right-/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) approach is introduced and used to approximate CRLH metamaterial through lumped L and C. Finally, several CRLH metamaterial mushroom-based structures are investigated. A 19 by 8 flat microwave lens and a parabolic microwave lens structure composed of 410 unit mushroom cells are investigated. These structures demonstrate negative refractive index (NRI) characteristics while operate in the left-hand (LH) region. The simulation and measurement results of one- and two-dimensional CRLH mushroom-based structures are compared.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0619106-162421
Date19 June 2006
CreatorsWu, Wei-Yang
ContributorsChih-Wen Kuo, Kin-Lu Wong, Ken-Huang Lin, Tzyy-Sheng Horng, Tzong-Lin Wu, Yu-De Lin, Hsueh-Yung Chao, Ming-Cheng Liang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0619106-162421
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