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Magnetically tunable left handed metamaterials by liquid crystal orientation

  • Fuli Zhang
  • , Lei Kang
  • , Qian Zhao
  • , Ji Zhou
  • , Xiaopeng Zhao
  • , Didier Lippens
  • Institut d'Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN)
  • Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian
  • Tsinghua University

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Abstract

The tunability of an omega-type left handed metamaterial was demonstrated at microwave frequencies via the magnetic control of liquid crystal (LC) orientation. From the experimental and simulation results, it is shown that the left handed pass-band can be tuned by 220 MHz by changing the orientation of LC molecules by 90°. A maximum index variation of 0.25 was obtained in the negative index regime with a measured LC birefringence of 0.05 in the 10 - 12GHz frequency band.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4360-4366
Number of pages7
JournalOptics Express
Volume17
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Mar 2009

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