Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Theoretical and experimental investigations of easy made fishnet metamaterials at microwave frequencies

  • Published:
Applied Physics A Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a left handed behaviour of a planar fishnet type metamaterial in the microwave regime. The fabrication procedure based on printed circuit board technology and mechanical micromachining technique is easy, unique and doesn’t involve optical lithography. The effective parameters have been extracted using the S parameter retrieval method and show a very good agreement between simulation and experiment. Using finite-element method based simulations and W-band (75 GHz–110 GHz) experiments. We measured a negative index of refraction of −4 at 85 GHz. The demonstrated left handed materials represent a step towards the easy fabrication of metamaterials with a negative refractive index that open a new path for the active manipulation of millimetre wavelengths.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. V.G. Veselago, Sov. Phys. Usp. 10, 509–514 (1968)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. J.B. Pendry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3966 (2000)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. D.R. Smith, W.J. Padilla, D.C. Vier, S.C. Nemat-Nasser, S. Schultz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4184 (2000)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. S. Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137404 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. V.M. Shalaev et al., Opt. Lett. 30, 3356–3358 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. G. Dolling, C. Enkrich, M. Wegener, C.M. Soukoulis, S. Linden, Science 312, 892 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. G. Dolling, C. Enkrich, M. Wegener, C.M. Soukoulis, S. Linden, Opt. Lett. 31, 1800–1802 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. S. Zhang et al., Opt. Express 14, 6778–6787 (2006)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. K. Guven et al., J. Opt. A, Pure Appl. Opt. 9, S361–S365 (2007)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. K.B. Alici, E. Ozbay, J. Phys. D, Appl. Phys. 41, 135011 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. G. Dolling, M. Wegener, C.M. Soukoulis, S. Linden, Opt. Express 15, 11536–11541 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. N.C. Panoiu, R.M. Osgood, Opt. Express 13, 4922–4930 (2005)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. M. Kafesaki et al., Phys. Rev. B 75, 235114 (2007)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  14. C. Yan, Y. Cui, Q. Wang, S. Zhuo, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, 1815–1819 (2008)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  15. D.R. Smith, S. Schultz, P. Markos, C.M. Soukoulis, Phys. Rev. B 65, 195104 (2002)

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. R.A. Depine, A. Lakhtakia, Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 41, 315–316 (2004)

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine, Université Bordeaux 1, UMR 5798, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405, Talence Cedex, France

    Riad Yahiaoui & Patrick Mounaix

  2. Laboratoire de l’Intégration du Matériau au Système, Université Bordeaux 1, UMR 5218, Site ENSCBP, 16 avenue Pey-Berland, 33607, Pessac Cedex, France

    Riad Yahiaoui & Valérie Vignéras

Authors
  1. Riad Yahiaoui
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Valérie Vignéras
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Patrick Mounaix
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Patrick Mounaix.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Yahiaoui, R., Vignéras, V. & Mounaix, P. Theoretical and experimental investigations of easy made fishnet metamaterials at microwave frequencies. Appl. Phys. A 103, 685–688 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6334-z

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6334-z

Keywords

Search

Navigation