Wideband chiral metamaterial for polarization conversion based on helical-type inclusions

Materials with a high electromagnetic activity usually present a strong resonant response that produces extreme values for the constitutive parameters, but in a narrow frequency range. Here, a chiral material composed by four helical-like resonators, as the unit cell, able to produce high rotatory d...

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Autores: García Collado, Ángel Joaquín, Molina Cuberos, Gregorio José, Fernández Fernández, Óscar|||0000-0002-6441-5702, Barba García, Ismael, Margineda Puigpelat, José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/30861
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/30861
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Chirality
Metamaterial (MM)
Polarization
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Sumario:Materials with a high electromagnetic activity usually present a strong resonant response that produces extreme values for the constitutive parameters, but in a narrow frequency range. Here, a chiral material composed by four helical-like resonators, as the unit cell, able to produce high rotatory dispersion and low circular dichroism in a wide frequency band is presented. The transmission and reflection coefficients of a thin slab of such material have been determined using a free-wave experimental setup and numerical simulations. The experimental results show a cross-polarization conversion in the transmission mode for linearly polarized incident waves in a 2-GHz bandwidth centered at 10 GHz and a polarization conversion ratio larger than 0.97.