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A General Framework for the Analysis of Metamaterial Transmission Lines

By Giulio Antonini
Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 20, 353-373, 2010
doi:10.2528/PIERB10030601

Abstract

This paper presents a closed-form analysis of composite right/left handed transmission lines. The ladder network structure of the transmission line allows to obtain a rational form of any twoport network representation. As a consequence of the rational form of the transfer functions, poles and residues are easily computed and the dominant ones selected leading to an efficient time-domain macromodel. The numerical results confirm the robustness and the accuracy of the proposed method in capturing the physics of composite right/left handed transmission lines.

Citation


Giulio Antonini, "A General Framework for the Analysis of Metamaterial Transmission Lines," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 20, 353-373, 2010.
doi:10.2528/PIERB10030601
http://test.jpier.org/PIERB/pier.php?paper=10030601

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