Departmental Papers (ESE)
Title
Is Foster's Reactance Theorem Satisfied in Double-Negative and Single-Negative Media?
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
October 2003
Abstract
In this Letter, we address the issue of Foster's reactance theorem for the material media in which one or both of the material parameters ε and μ may possess negative real parts. We demonstrate that this theorem is indeed satisfied for a one-port termination filled with a lossless metamaterial with negative real permittivity and permeability, known as a "double-negative (DNG)" medium, or with a lossless metamaterial with either negative real permittivity or negative real permeability, which can be named as a "single-negative (SNG)" medium. However, in the case of DNG media when the reactive input impedance of such a termination is compared with that of its counterpart filled with a conventional lossless "double-positive (DPS)" material, it is found that the two reactances have opposite signs. Similar conclusions can be made for a termination filled with a lossless epsilon-negative (ENG) material when it is compared with that of its mu-negative (MNG) counterpart. Therefore, if a one-port termination filled with a lossless DPS or ENG material possesses inductive input reactance, when the same termination is filled instead with a lossless DNG or MNG material, its input reactance may be capacitive.
Keywords
composite materials, negative permittivity, metamaterials
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Date Posted: 24 July 2007
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Comments
Postprint version. Published in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Volume 39, Issue 1, October 5 2003, pages 11-14.
Publisher URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/104551834
A portion of this work was presented and appeared in the CD of the XXVII General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science (URSI GA’02), Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 17-24, 2002.