A Flexible Transmission Line of Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons at Microwave Frequencies

This paper presents a flexible transmission line based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). The transmission line (TL) consists of a flexible dielectric substrate, ultrathin corrugated metallic strips and transition structures. The flexible ability of the TL is based on the ultrathin and fol...

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Published in2022 IEEE 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP) pp. 1 - 2
Main Authors Wei, Jiaxuan, Li, Weihan, Gao, Shizhao, Tang, Wenxuan
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 04.11.2022
Subjects
flexible circuits
Loss measurement
microwave circuits
Power transmission lines
Prototypes
Reflection
spoof surface plasmon polaritons
Strips
Surface plasmon polaritons
Transmission line measurements
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Summary:This paper presents a flexible transmission line based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs). The transmission line (TL) consists of a flexible dielectric substrate, ultrathin corrugated metallic strips and transition structures. The flexible ability of the TL is based on the ultrathin and foldable substrate, and also due to the excellent field confinement of the SSPPs to guarantee high transmission performance in the cases of bending and twisting. Prototype of the SSPP TL is fabricated and tested. The measured results show that in the working frequency from 12 to 18 GHz, the TL maintains a reflection coefficient below −10 dB and a transmission loss about 2 dB when it is bent or twisted. This TL applies the excellent characteristics of SSPPs to flexible microwave circuits, and may have good application prospects.
DOI:10.1109/APCAP56600.2022.10069093