Caracterización de una lente zurda plana para la excitación de antenas planas de ranuras

Abstract

“Metamaterials” are artificially engineered structured materials exhibiting novel properties due to their special architecture and not because of the constituent homogeneous materials used to manufacture them. This enables to design new materials with characteristics not available in conventional materials, as a negative refractive index. A new form of excitation for parallel plate slot antennas based in a planar “left handed” lens is proposed in [1]. This excitation allows enhancing the efficiency of these kinds of antennas. The lens is constructed using the well known “mushroom” structure. Here the characterization of the left handed lens with the mushroom structure in terms of their geometrical parameters (lattice constant, diameter of via, height of substrate) is presented using the dispersion diagram of the unit cell. Some simulations results are shown.