Spoof surface plasmon polariton (SPP) has been realized at low frequencies through corrugated metallic structures. As two-dimensional application, the ultrathin SPP transmission lines (TLs) have been proposed with great potentials for microwave compact circuits due to the strong field confinement and enhancement, as well as controllable dispersive properties. In this paper, we examine the radia...

We report the measurement of small losses in transmission line (TL) components intended for high-power millimeter-wave applications. Measurements were made using two different low-power techniques: a coherent technique using a vector network analyzer (VNA) and an incoherent technique using a radiometer. The measured loss in a 140 GHz 12.7 mm diameter TL system, consisting of 1.7 m of circular c...

A substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) loaded by three-dimensional embedded split ring resonators (3-DESRRs) is discussed theoretically and experimentally. The 3-DESRR structure which has proved to be an alternative magnetic metamaterial resonator for SIW structures is able to provide negative transversal eywords: ubstrate integrated waveguide (SIW) hree-dimensional embedded split ring esonator...

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 paper presents a novel Monte-Carlo based model for the analysis of backflashover rate (BFOR) on high voltage transmission lines. The proposed model aims to take into the account following aspects of the BFOR phenomenon: transmission line (TL) route keraunic level(s), statistical depiction of lightningcurrent parameters (including statistical correlation), electrogeometric model of lightnin...

Transmission line (TL) Parameter Identification (PI) method plays an essential role in the transmission system. The existing PI methods usually have two limitations: (1) These only model for single TL, and can not consider topology connection of multiple branches simultaneous identification. (2) Transient bad data is ignored by methods, random selection terminal section may cause distortion ser...

An analysis method for electromagnetic field coupling to microstrip line connected with nonlinear components is proposed in this paper. Different from the published work, not only the voltage and current response of the nonlinear component connected to the transmission line (TL) can be obtained, but also the power transmitted from this nonlinear component to the next one at both the fundamental...

Incorporation of active devices/media such as transistors for microwave and gain media for optics may be very attractive for enabling desired low loss and broadband metamaterials. Such metamaterials can even have gain which may very well lead to new and exciting physical phenomena. We investigate microwave composite right/left-handed transmission lines (CRLH-TL) incorporating ideal gain devices...

In this paper we present some results of the ongoing research aimed at studying the limitations attached to the increase in transmission line (TL) density for the high speed interconnects at the board, multi-chip module and on-chip integration levels. For any interconnect solution the important quality in the frequency band of interest is the signal to noise ratio obtainable, where noise could ...

[1] Electric fields on the ground 500 m, 5 km, and 50 km from the lightning channel base computed using the transmission line (TL) and antenna theory (AT) return-stroke models for a typical subsequent stroke current at the channel base and a return-stroke speed equal to the speed of light (v = c) are compared. The AT model gives a total electric field peak that is about 10% lower than the field...