TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE METAMATERIALS IN FREE SPACE: EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS

Free-space microwave measurements are applied on composite metamaterials (CMMs) consisting of split ring resonators (SRRs) and wires, also known as left-handed material. Our experiments are based on a type of CMMs with unique configurations and the transmission and reflection measurements performed in free space exhibit a pass band at about 9 GHz. Simulation results are also given, which are in good agreements with experiments. The widely belief of the pass band is that the stop hands of the SRRs alone and the wires alone constitute a clear demonstration of left-handed (LH) behavior. The LH behavior only take place in the medium with simultaneously negative permittivity epsilon, and permeability mu, also called double negative materials. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 51: 1865-1868. 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI 10.1002/mop.24465