%0 Journal Article
%T Fast and accurate simulations of transmission-line metamaterials using transmission-matrix method
%A Ma Hui
%A Cui Tie
%A Chin Jessie
%A Cheng Qiang
%J PMC Physics B
%D 2008
%I PhysMath Central
%R 10.1186/1754-0429-1-10
%X Recently, two-dimensional (2D) periodically L and C loaded transmission-line (TL) networks have been applied to represent metamaterials. The commercial Agilent's Advanced Design System (ADS) is a commonly-used tool to simulate the TL metamaterials. However, it takes a lot of time to set up the TL network and perform numerical simulations using ADS, making the metamaterial analysis inefficient, especially for large-scale TL networks. In this paper, we propose transmission-matrix method (TMM) to simulate and analyze the TL-network metamaterials efficiently. Compared to the ADS commercial software, TMM provides nearly the same simulation results for the same networks. However, the model-process and simulation time has been greatly reduced. The proposed TMM can serve as an efficient tool to study the TL-network metamaterials. PACS Codes: 41.20.Jb
%U http://www.physmathcentral.com/1754-0429/1/10