Active microwave metamaterials incorporating ideal gain devices

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-83

  Si, Li Ming ^a,c   Jiang, Tao ^b,c   Chang, Kihun ^c   Chen, Te Chuan ^c   Lv, Xin ^a   Ran, Lixin ^b   Xin, Hao ^c  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Active metamaterial; Composite right left handed transmission line (CRLH TL); Dispersion attenuation relation; Negative resistance device

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE;

ACTIVE METAMATERIAL; ATTENUATION RELATIONS; COMPOSITE RIGHT-LEFT HANDED; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEAVE-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE; COMPOSITE RIGHT/LEFT-HANDED; DISPERSION/ATTENUATION RELATION; LEFT HANDED TRANSMISSION LINES; LEFT-HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE DEVICE; TRANSMISSION-LINE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84889580211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4010073     Document Type: Article

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