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Additively manufactured artificial materials with metallic meta-atoms

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posted on 2017-09-01, 09:49 authored by Shiyu Zhang, William WhittowWilliam Whittow, J. C. Vardaxoglou
The paper presents the analysis and fabrication of artificial materials with metallic cuboid inclusions (termed here as meta-atoms) in a dielectric host material. These synthetic materials or metamaterials have been additively manufactured with a fused deposition modelling (FDM) 3D-printer. The effective permittivity and permeability have been numerically analyzed using the Maxwell-Garnett and Lewin’s approximation. Simulations and measurements have shown good agreement with analytical calculations. The anisotropy of the heterogeneous mixture due to the orientation of the meta-atoms has been demonstrated. The effective permittivity has been increased by the presence of the meta-atoms, which has the potential of producing 3D-printing metamaterials with tailored electromagnetic properties.

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This work was supported by EPSRC research grant SYMETA (EP/N010493/1) and EPSRC Doctoral Prize Research Fellowship.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation

Citation

ZHANG, S., WHITTOW, W.G. and VARDAXOGLOU, J.C., 2017. Additively manufactured artificial materials with metallic meta-atoms. IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 11(14), pp. 1955 – 1961.

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Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The accepted version will be replaced by the published version once this is available.

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2017-07-25

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2017

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by IET under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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1751-8725

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1751-8733

Language

  • en

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