Active Metamaterial Transmission Line with Gain in SiGe BiCMOS Technology

作者：Zhou, C. X.^*; Li, Yihu; Xiong, Y. Z.; Wu, W.

来源：Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, 2016, 31(5): 551-554.

• Active
• CRLH TL
• metamaterial
• SiGe BiCMOS

We report the realization of an active composite right/left-handed (CRLH) metamaterial transmission line (TL) with gain. By employing the transistors in SiGe BiCMOS technology, an active CRLH TL has been realized exhibiting net gain, wideband and flat S-parameter characteristics. Effective electromagnetic parameters of the active CRLH TL, including complex propagation constant gamma, effective permittivity epsilon(eff), effective permeability mu(eff) and index of refraction n are extracted, which reveal the left handed properties of the active CRLH TL. The electric plasma frequency f(pe) and the magnetic plasma frequency f(me) are observed in the proposed TL.

• 出版日期2016-5
• 单位南京理工大学; 中国工程物理研究院