Theoretical investigation of metamaterials: srr structures and periodic arrays of thin conducting wires

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2008

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Ateş, Kazım Ozan

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In recent years, there has been an increasing interest on left handed metamaterials because of their possible innovative applications. The pioneer study introducing such materials was brought out by V. G. Veselago in 1968 [1]. In his work, Veselago proposed a medium having simultaneously negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability and investigated its electromagnetic characteristics. He found out that the electric field, magnetic field and the propagation vector form a left handed triplet, thus named such materials as “Left Handed Materials”. Despite the significance of Veselago’s inferences, the metamaterial theory stayed dormant for nearly 30 years. Towards the end of 1990s, the physically realizable left handed materials were built as the combination of two periodical structures; Split Ring Resonators (SRRs) and metallic thin wire arrays [4-5]. In this thesis, electrical and magnetic characteristics of the left handed metamaterials are theoretically investigated by using the analytical models for their permittivity and permeability functions with respect to frequency. For this purpose, first, two basic metamaterial structures; the Split Ring Resonators and Thin Metallic Wire Arrays are studied individually and their electrical and magnetic characteristics are examined. Finally, the composite left handed structure containing both SRRs and thin wires is studied to investigate the resulting simultaneous resonance properties and to estimate their overall effective permeability and permittivity functions.

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Electrical engineering., Electronics.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609485/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18080

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K. O. Ateş, “Theoretical investigation of metamaterials: srr structures and periodic arrays of thin conducting wires,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.