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dc.contributor.advisorChang, Kai
dc.creatorScher, Aaron David
dc.date.accessioned2005-08-29T14:39:07Z
dc.date.available2005-08-29T14:39:07Z
dc.date.created2006-05
dc.date.issued2005-08-29
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2337
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, two separate research topics are undertaken both in the general area of compact RF/microwave circuit design. The first topic involves characterizing the parasitic effects and error due to unused post-production tuning bars. Such tuning bars are used in microwave circuit designs to allow the impedance or length of a microstrip line to be adjusted after fabrication. In general, the tuning bars are simply patterns of small, isolated sections of conductor adjacent to the thru line. Changing the impedance or length of the thru line involves bonding the appropriate tuning bars to the line. Unneeded tuning bars are simply not removed and left isolated. Ideally, there should be no coupling between these unused tuning bars and the thru line. Therefore, the unused tuning bars should have a negligible effect on the circuit??s overall performance. To nullify the parasitic effects of the tuning bars, conventional wisdom suggests placing the bars 1.0 to 1.5 substrate heights away from the main line. While successful in the past, this practice may not result in the most efficient and cost-effective placement of tuning bars in today??s compact microwave circuits. This thesis facilitates the design of compact tuning bar configurations with minimum parasitic effects by analyzing the error attributable to various common tuning bar configurations with a range of parameters and offset distances. The error is primarily determined through electromagnetic simulations, and the accuracy of these simulations is verified by experimental results. The second topic in this thesis involves the design of compact microwave resonators using the transmission line approach to create negative refractive index metamaterials. A survey of the major developments and fundamental concepts related to negative refractive index technology (with focus on the transmission line approach) is given. Following is the design and measurement of the compact resonators. The resonators are also compared to their conventional counterparts to demonstrate both compactness and harmonic suppression.en
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.subjecttuning baren
dc.subjectmetamaterialen
dc.subjectresonatoren
dc.subjectnegative refractive indexen
dc.titleMicrostrip post production tuning bar error and compact resonators using negative refractive index metamaterialsen
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dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentElectrical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A&M Universityen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMichalski, Krzysztof A.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSaslow, Wayne
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTaylor, Henry F.
dc.type.genreElectronic Thesisen
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