Issue Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. Volume 46, Number 3, June 2009 Metamaterials Article Number 32609 Number of page(s) 5 Section Metamaterials 2007 DOI 10.1051/epjap:2008120 Published online 19 June 2008

Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 46, 32609 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/epjap:2008120

New transmission lines of negative refractive index based on periodically loaded negative-impedance-converted inductors and capacitors

X. Hu^{1, 2} and S. He<sup>1, 2

1</sup>  Division of Electromagnetic Theory, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
²  Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P.R. China

sailing@kth.se

Received: 4 February 2008 / Received in final form: 18 March 2008 / Accepted: 7 April 2008 / Published online: 19 June 2008

Abstract
A new class of negative refractive index (NRI) transmission line is proposed. Differential operational amplifiers are used to form the required lumped elements, i.e., negative-impedance-converted (NIC) inductors and capacitors. When the gain of the differential operational amplifiers in the NIC circuits is very large over the entire frequency band, the equivalent material parameters are non-dispersive, and the phase response of the new NRI transmission line can be complimentary to that of a conventional transmission line over the entire frequency band. As an application example, a broadband 1:4 power divider based on the proposed NRI transmission line is studied.

PACS
41.20.-q - Applied classical electromagnetism.

© EDP Sciences 2009

What is OpenURL?