Nonreciprocal Nongyrotropic Magnetless Metasurface

Taravati, Sajjad, Khan, Bakhtiar A., Gupta, Shulabh, Achouri, Karim and Caloz, Christophe (2017) Nonreciprocal Nongyrotropic Magnetless Metasurface. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 65 (7), 3589-3597, [7922565]. (doi:10.1109/TAP.2017.2702712).

Abstract

We introduce a nonreciprocal nongyrotropic magnetless metasurface. In contrast to previous nonreciprocal structures, this metasurface does not require a biasing magnet, and is therefore lightweight and amenable to integrated circuit fabrication. Moreover, it does not induce Faraday rotation, and hence does not alter the polarization of waves, which is a desirable feature in many nonreciprocal devices. The metasurface is designed according to a Surface-Circuit-Surface architecture and leverages the inherent unidirectionality of transistors for breaking time reversal symmetry. Interesting features include transmission gain as well as broad operating bandwidth and angular sector operation. It is finally shown that the metasurface is bianisotropic in nature, with nonreciprocity due to the electric-magnetic coupling parameters, and structurally equivalent to a moving uniaxial metasurface.

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Author: Sajjad Taravati

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