Determination of negative permeability and permittivity of metal strip coated ferrite disks using the transmission and reflection technique

摘要

In this paper, a full band microwave isolator constructed from an array of metal wire-coated ferrite samples is presented. Here, the magnetic permeability of the metamaterialized structure is controlled by a relatively weak external magnetic field. The tunable permeability of the ferrites in this experiment allows us to create unidirectional wave propagation through the structure over the entire X-band frequency spectrum. The analysis presented here takes into account potential surface plasmon modes generated between the gaps of metal wires when the external magnetic field is applied. Here, we present a modification of the traditional transmission-reflection measurement method by normalizing the transmission and reflection coefficients. This modification removes the occurrence of atypical phenomena for negative imaginary components of permeability and permittivity that arises in the measurement of metamaterials. Our modified method precisely determines the refractive index, impedance, permittivity, and permeability of both traditional reciprocal networks as well as nonreciprocal networks, such as the one presented here.