Artificial Transmission Lines for RF and Microwave Applications
Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering (Series Nr. 1)
1. Edition July 2015
560 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This book presents and discusses alternatives to ordinary transmission lines for the design and implementation of advanced RF/microwave components in planar technology.
This book is devoted to the analysis, study and applications of artificial transmission lines mostly implemented by means of a host line conveniently modified (e.g., with modulation of transverse dimensions, with etched patterns in the metallic layers, etc.) or with reactive loading, in order to achieve novel device functionalities, superior performance, and/or reduced size.
The author begins with an introductory chapter dedicated to the fundamentals of planar transmission lines. Chapter 2 is focused on artificial transmission lines based on periodic structures (including non-uniform transmission lines and reactively-loaded lines), and provides a comprehensive analysis of the coupled mode theory. Chapters 3 and 4 are dedicated to artificial transmission lines inspired by metamaterials, or based on metamaterial concepts. These chapters include the main practical implementations of such lines and their circuit models, and a wide overview of their RF/microwave applications (including passive and active circuits and antennas). Chapter 5 focuses on reconfigurable devices based on tunable artificial lines, and on non-linear transmission lines. The chapter also introduces several materials and components to achieve tuning, including diode varactors, RF-MEMS, ferroelectrics, and liquid crystals. Finally, Chapter 6 covers other advanced transmission lines and wave guiding structures, such as electroinductive-/magnetoinductive-wave lines, common-mode suppressed balanced lines, lattice-network artificial lines, and substrate integrated waveguides.
Artificial Transmission Lines for RF and Microwave Applications provides an in-depth analysis and discussion of artificial transmission lines, including design guidelines that can be useful to researchers, engineers and students.
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1. Fundamentals of Planar Transmission Lines
1.1 Planar transmission lines, distributed circuits and artificial transmission lines
1.2 Distributed circuit analysis and main transmission line parameters
1.3 Loaded (terminated) transmission lines
1.4 Lossy transmission lines
1.5 Comparative analysis of planar transmission lines
1.6 Some illustrative applications of planar transmission lines
References
2. Artificial Transmission Lines based on Periodic Structures
2.1 Introduction and scope
2.2 Floquet analysis of periodic structures
2.3 The transfer matrix method
2.4 Coupled mode theory
2.5 Applications
References
3. Metamaterial Transmission Lines: Fundamentals, Theory, Circuit Models, and Main Implementations
3.1 Introduction, terminology, and scope
3.2 Effective medium metamaterials
3.3 Electrically small resonators for metamaterials and microwave circuit design
3.4 Canonical models of metamaterial transmission lines
3.5 Implementation of metamaterial transmission lines and lumped element equivalent circuit models
References
4. Metamaterial Transmission Lines: RF/Microwave Applications
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Applications of CRLH transmission lines
4.3 Transmission lines with metamaterial loading and applications
References
5. Reconfigurable, Tunable and Nonlinear Artificial Transmission Lines
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Materials, components and technologies to implement tunable devices
5.3 Tunable and reconfigurable metamaterial transmission lines and applications
5.4 Nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs)
References
6. Other Advanced Transmission Lines
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Magnetoinductive-wave (MIW) and electroinductive-wave (EIW) delay lines
6.3 Balanced transmission lines with common-mode suppression
6.4 Wideband artificial transmission lines
6.5 Substrate integrated waveguides (SIW) and their application to metamaterial transmission lines
References
Appendixes
Appendix A. Equivalence between plane wave propagation in source-free, linear, isotropic and homogeneous media, TEM wave propagation in transmission lines and wave propagation in transmission lines described by its distributed circuit model
Appendix B. The Smith Chart
Appendix C. The scattering matrix
Appendix D. Current density distribution in a conductor
Appendix E. Derivation of the simplified coupled mode equations and coupling coefficient from the distributed circuit model of a transmission line
Appendix F. Averaging the effective dielectric constant in EBG-based transmission lines
Appendix G. Parameter extraction
G.1 Parameter extraction in CSRR-loaded lines
G.2 Parameter extraction in SRR-loaded lines
G.3 Parameter extraction in OSRR-loaded lines
G.4 Parameter extraction in OCSRR-loaded lines
Appendix H. Synthesis of resonant type metamaterial transmission lines by means of Aggressive Space Mapping (ASM)
H.1 General formulation of ASM
H.2 Determination of the convergence region in the coarse model space
H.3 Determination of the initial layout
H.4 The core ASM algorithm
H.5 Illustrative examples and convergence speed
Appendix I. Conditions to obtain all-pass X-type and bridged-T networks
Index