A power divider based on a new kind of composite right/left-handed transmission line （CRLH TL） unit

A new power divider, composed of a novel composite right/left-handed （CRLH） transmission line （TL） unit, is proposed. The properties of the power divider based on four CRLH TL unit cells are investigated theoretically. By adjusting the parameters of the capacitors and the inductors, the power divider shows perfectly symmetric power division at 5.13 GHz, return loss up to -24 dB, with the transmitted power being close to 3.1 dB. The phenomena are demonstrated by simulation results. Being compact in size and low-cost, the proposed power divider is very suitable for microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits.     

Science Letters:A power divider based on a new kind of composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH TL) unit

INTRODUCTION Wave propagation in a material with negative magnetic permeability and negative electric permit- tivity was first theoretically analyzed by Veselago (1968). In such a left-handed material (LHM), the electric field E, the magnetic field H and the wave vector k of electromagnetic wave propagation obey the left-hand rule (instead of the right-hand rule for usual materials). After Smith et al.(2000) demon- strated simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity, using cop…     

Novel resonator based on composite right/left-handed transmission lines

INTRODUCTION Left-handed materials (LHMs) are characterized by simultaneously negative permittivity and perme- ability. It was first investigated theoretically by Ve- selago (1968). The experimental realization of LHM with resonance structures was demonstrated by Smith et al.(2000). Since then, LHM has gained significant interest and started to be integrated into novel mi- crowave and optical applications. The transmis- sion-line (TL) approach was recently proposed to realize LHMs …     

Dual structure of composite right/left-handed transmission line

A dual structure of composite right/left handed （CRLH） transmission line （TL） is analyzed in which an inductance LR is in parallel with a capacitance CL and a shunt capacitance CR is in series with an inductance LL. Both the distributed and lumped cases are considered. The dispersion diagram and transmission properties of the dual CRLH TL are given and compared with those of a standard CRLH TL. Contrary to the frequency response of a standard CRLH TL, a dual CRLH TL has a left-handed （negative phase shift） band at higher frequencies and a right-handed （positive phase shift） band at lower frequencies. A novel dual-band balun is presented as an application.     

Science Letters:Dual structure of composite right/left-handed transmission line

INTRODUCTION An artificial dielectric medium that exhibits si- multaneously negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability, also known as a left-handed (LH) material, was first envisaged by Veselago, who theoretically predicted that such a medium would exhibit a negative refractive index (NRI) (Veselago, 1968). An artificial NRI medium exhibiting back- ward-wave propagation characteristics (and therefore a negative refractive index) was first realized ex- perimentally in (She…     

Discussion on coupling mechanism of asymmetric CRLH/RH TL coupler

INTRODUCTION In recent years metamaterials, more commonly referred to as left-handed materials, have stimulated great interests in the scientific and engineering field. These artificial materials, which were first theorized by Veselago (1968) and experimentally realized by Shelby et al.(2001), can exhibit specific electromag- netic properties not commonly found in nature. The approach of using transmission line theory was veri- fied to be an efficient design tool for metamaterials applica…     

A new broadband differential phase shifter fabricated using a novel CRLH structure

Broadband phase shifters are mostly proposed and fabricated based on the scheme proposed by Shiffman, which uses a coupled line with far ends connected together and a uniform transmission line to give a differential phase shift. Based on the unique dispersion property of the composite right/left-handed (CRLH) metamaterial structure, a new configuration is presented in this paper for fabricating the broadband differential phase shifter, which employs a novel CRLH metamaterial structure as one of the differential phase-shift arms, instead of the conventional coupled line. The new circuit can achieve a phase shift of 90° in an operational bandwidth as broad as one octave and its phase deviations are quite small. An original design of the novel broadband phase shifter is presented, in which the artificial CRLH structure was implemented by microstrip quasi-lumped elements. Both the simulated and measured results of the 90° broadband differential phase shifter are presented.     

平面天线阵列馈电网络应用教学探讨

在综合分析了微带平面天线阵列馈电网络的两种传统馈电方式的基础上,提出了一种在微波工程应用中实际使用的一种新型馈电网络,提高学生理论知识与实践相结合的能力,更好的掌握最新技术发展。其新型馈电网络由一种左-右手混合微带传输线构成,可以获得高于传统并联馈电网络的天线阵列增益;同时,可以修正传统串联馈电网络的天线阵列辐射方向图的波束偏移,给出了一个工作频率为35GHz的2×2微带面阵的馈电网络设计案例,验证了其理论的正确性。     

A low-power Rijndael S-Box based on pass transmission gate and composite field arithmetic

Using composite field arithmetic in Galois field can result in the compact Rijndael S-Box. However, the power con- sumption of this solution is too large to be used in resource-limited embedded systems. A full-custom hardware implementation of composite field S-Box is proposed for these targeted domains in this paper. The minimization of power consumption is implemented by optimizing the architecture of the composite field S-Box and using the pass transmission gate (PTG) to realize the logic functions of S-Box. Power simulations were performed using the netlist extracted from the layout. HSPICE simulation results indicated that the proposed S-Box achieves low power consumption of about 130 μW at 10 MHz using 0.25 μm/2.5 V technology, while the consumptions of the positive polarity reed-muller (PPRM) based S-Box and composite field S-Box based on the conventional CMOS logic style are about 240 μW and 420 μW, respectively. The simulations also showed that the presented S-Box obtains better low-voltage operating property, which is clearly relevant for applications like sensor nodes, smart cards and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.