High Power Microwave Sources And Technologies Using Metamaterials

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High power microwave sources and technologies using metamaterials.

For over the last decade the concept of metamaterials has led to new approaches for considering the interaction of radiation with complex structures. 1 because of its small size and ease of integration into many different high frequency circuits microstrip antennas have been quite popular for use at microwave frequencies. Press 2004 modern microwave and millimeter wave power electronics eds. A method of wirelessly transferring power from a source to a receiver is by means of electromagnetic near fields.

Barker booske luhman and nusinovich. Recently the use of coding metamaterials has been suggested for the control of electromagnetic waves through the design of coding sequences using digital elements 0 and 1 which possess. Intellectual ventures metamaterials based system has some distinct advantages. We have demonstrated two operational high power mtm sources one generating 5 mw at s band and the other generating 100 mw in l band.

Metamaterials mtm are artificial periodic structures which support reversed cherenkov radiation and backward wave propagation. The microwave beam can be focused and redirected with relatively high efficiency and with no moving parts. The goal of this dissertation is to design novel metamaterials for high power microwave devices. However practical manifestations of such a device operating at high power densities have proven difficult to achieve due to the resonant nature of metamaterials and the resultant high electric fields which place severe constraints on.

Besides the arbitrarily dual band microwave components ultra wide bandpass filters and other compact microwave devices and antennas 50 54 using lc circuit metamaterials in the early stage we took full advantage of gradient refractive index grin metamaterials to invent high performance lens antennas 55 61. Light source of 1632 8 nm is used for excitation of five. Was used as t he microwave source for the 95 ghz. Barker and schamiloglu ieee press 2001 high power electromagnetic radiators nonlethal weapons other applications by giri harvard univ.

Unfortunately the low directivity and. Metamaterials mtms can be exploited as new means of high power microwave generation. Metamaterials have been considered part of certain design efforts since 1968 as a potential means of improving antenna performance. Since the first demonstra tion of negative refractive index using metamaterials.