Browsing by Subject "Metamaterials"
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Analysis of an off-broadside zero beam-squinting leaky-wave antenna using metamaterials
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)It is shown that zero beam-squinting can be achieved in both series fed antenna arrays and leaky-wave antennas by employing two parallel-connected metamaterial transmission lines with equal positive group delays, but with ...
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Antenna applications of negative-refractive-index transmission-line structures
(2007)A number of new antenna-related applications that have recently been developed at the University of Toronto based on the concept of negative-refractive-index transmission-line metamaterials are reviewed. These include ...
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Applications of negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterials in planar antennas and their feed networks
(2007)Negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterials and introduced and their fundamental properties are described. Following this, various applications using NRI-TLs are shown and their salient characteristics ...
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Arbitrary length zero-phase substrate integrated coaxial lines using NRI-TL metamaterials
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)Arbitrary-length zero-degree phase-shifting lines are presented at X-band that are based on negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterials implemented in substrate integrated coaxial line (SICL) technology. ...
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Bandwidth and Directivity Enhancement of Loop Antenna by Nonperiodic Distribution of Mu-Negative Metamaterial Unit Cells
(2016)The theory, design, analysis, and verification of a wideband and unidirectional loop antenna loaded with mu-negative (MNG) metamaterial unit cells is presented. It is shown that by nonperiodic positioning of MNG unit cells ...
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Bandwidth and directivity enhancement of metamaterial-loaded loop antennas for microwave imaging applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)Compact, wideband and unidirectional loop antennas are presented, that are based on a conventional planar loop antenna that is loaded in a mu-negative (MNG) fashion with series capacitors, enabling a mu-zero (MZR) resonance ...
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A broadband 1:4 Series power divider using metamaterial phase-shifting lines
(2005)A metamaterial 1:4 series power divider that provides equal power split to all four output ports over a large bandwidth Is presented. The divider comprises four non-radiating metamaterial lines In series that can each Incur ...
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A broadband balun using metamaterial phase-shifting lines
(2005)A 3-port device that converts a single-ended input to a differential output over a large bandwidth is presented. The balun comprises a Wilkinson divider, followed by a +90° negative-refractive-index (NRI) metamaterial (MM) ...
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A broadband dual-mode monopole antenna using NRI-TL metamaterial loading
(2009)A printed monopole antenna is proposed which uses negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterial loading in order to achieve a broadband dual-mode operation. The metamaterial-loaded monopole supports a ...
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A broadband Wilkinson balun using microstrip metamaterial lines
(2005)A metamaterial balun that converts a single-ended input to a differential output over a large bandwidth is presented. The device also exhibits excellent return loss, isolation, and through characteristics over the same ...
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A compact and broadband NRI-TL metamaterial
(2009)A compact and broadband negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterial antenna is proposed,which consists of a conventional printed monopole loaded in a left-handed fashion. The metamaterial loading ...
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A compact and low-profile metamaterial ring antenna with vertical polarization
(2005)A compact (λ 0/11 footprint) and low-profile (λ 0/28 height) metamaterial ring antenna is proposed using two metamaterial unit cells. Each constituent unit cell consists of negative-refractive-index (NRI) microstrip ...
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A compact crossover using NRI-TL metamaterial lines
(2012)A compact NRI-TL metamaterial branch-line crossover is presented that has an area of λ/36 × λ/12, and is a factor of 81 times smaller than its analogous transmission-line counterpart. Circuit simulations reveal that it ...
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Compact linear lead/lag metamaterial phase shifters for broadband applications
(2003)A compact one-dimensional phase shifter is proposed using alternating sections of negative refractive index (NRI) metamaterials and printed transmission lines (TL). The NRI metamaterial sections consist of lumped element ...
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A Compact Multiband Printed Dipole Antenna Loaded with Two Unequal Parallel NRI-TL Metamaterial Unit Cells
(2015)A negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterial-loaded dipole antenna is proposed, which has a fully printed configuration and exhibits multiband performance. The antenna consists of a conventional ...
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A compact tri-band monopole antenna with single-cell metamaterial loading
(2010)A compact tri-band planar monopole antenna is proposed that employs reactive loading and a defected ground-plane structure. The reactive loading of the monopole is inspired by transmission-line based metamaterials (TL-MTM), ...
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Compact Wideband Loop Antenna Partially Loaded With Mu-Negative Metamaterial Unit Cells for Directivity Enhancement
(2016)A wideband and unidirectional loop antenna partially loaded with mu-negative (MNG) metamaterial unit cells is presented. To reduce the electrical size of the antenna, its first resonance is formed by capacitively loading ...
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Compact, wideband and multiband antennas based on metamaterial concepts
(2010)In this review article, various antenna designs that are based on metamaterial concepts are presented which have been developed at the University of Toronto. Specifically, several antennas that are based on the zero-index ...
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Computing and Communications for the Software-Defined Metamaterial Paradigm: A Context Analysis
(2017)Metamaterials are artificial structures that have recently enabled the realization of novel electromagnetic components with engineered and even unnatural functionalities. Existing metamaterials are specifically designed ...
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Design and Development of Software Defined Metamaterials for Nanonetworks
(2015)This paper introduces a class of programmable metamaterials, whose electromagnetic properties can be controlled via software. These software defined metamaterials (SDMs) stem from utilizing metamaterials in combination ...