Magnetless nonreciprocal metamaterial (MNM) technology: Application to microwave components

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1030-1042

  Kodera, Toshiro ^a   Sounas, Dimitrios L ^b   Caloz, Christophe ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anisotropic and gyrotropic materials; artificial magnetism; circulators; isolators; magnetless nonreciprocal metamaterial (MNM); ring resonators

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MAGNETISMS; COUPLING MECHANISM; GYROTROPIC MATERIALS; MICROWAVE COMPONENTS; NONRECIPROCAL; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RING RESONATOR; TRAVELING WAVE;

FERRITES; METAMATERIALS; MICROWAVE ISOLATORS; WAVEGUIDE CIRCULATORS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 84874945392     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2238246     Document Type: Article

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