STUDY ON A SORT OF CONTROLLABLE NONLINEAR LEFT-HANDED MATERIALS

Abstract

In this paper, three kinds of controllable nonlinear left-handed materials (DNLHMs) are proposed and analyzed, which are designed by introducing inductors and capacitors into the traditional nonlinear left-handed materials (NLHMs) as inhomogeneous doped elements. Due to such changes, several new transmission properties have been presented through finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. These have brought new features to our DNLHMs. On one hand, the original passband in the traditional nonlinear left-handed material is narrowed after introducing inductors. In addition, a new passband, which does not exist in doped linear LHMs, is generated. On the other hand, through introducing capacitors, the original passband of the nonlinear left-handed material can be shifted, resonance frequency can be changed, and a new passband can be generated. When capacitors and inductors are introduced simultaneously, the material properties, such as the number of passbands, the characteristic resonance frequency, and the bandwidth, can also be changed. Noting these characteristics, the values of the introduced inductors and capacitors are varied to investigate the spectrum changes of DNLHMs. Then, a series of controllable properties of the DNLHMs can be retrieved. And more importantly, the designed DNLHMs give the adjustability of suppressing high harmonics, which is not possible in the past materials.