The composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) is presented as a general TL possessing both left-handed (LH) and right-handed (RH) natures. RH materials have both positive permittivity and positive permeability, and LH materials have both negative permittivity and negative permeability. This paper aims to design and analyze nonlinear CRLH-TL transmission line loaded with resonant...

Two wideband left-handed (LH) transmission lines are presented. A pure LH transmission line (PLH TL) materialized by a defected ground structure with an inter-digital capacitor on a microstrip line has a wide LH propagation region without a right-handed (RH) branch in the reduced Brillouin zone. Another is a broadband LH rectangular waveguide utilized by a shorted stub and twisted Eplane posts....

This thesis work focuses mostly on investigating different potential applications of meta-transmission line (TL), particularly composite right/left handed (CRLH) TL and analyzing the new phenomena and applications of meta-TL, mostly left-handed (LH) TL, on other realization principle. The fundamental electromagnetic properties of propagation in the presence of left-handed material, such as the ...

Composite transmission lines are one of the main developments in the increasingly popular field of electromagnetic metamaterials, artificial electromagnetic structures with both negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability (Caloz & Itoh, 2005). These structures present a backward wave or left-handed (LH) propagation instead of the conventional right-handed one. The first experimenta...

A method for design and implementation of a compact via-less Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line (CRLH TL) is presented. By introducing a new circuit model, the CRLH transmission line behavior is studied versus the parameters variations to achieve the desired characteristic impedance and electrical length. Then a compact quarter wavelength CRLH transmission line with 70 Ω characte...

A design method for an L-band frequency quadrupler with composite right/left-handed transmission line is proposed. The left-handed transmission line in the proposed frequency quadrupler suppresses the fundamental component ( f0), while the composite right/left-handed l/4 open stub reduces unwanted higher-order harmonics. From the experimental results, unwanted harmonics are suppressed to achiev...