Retrieval of the effective constitutive parameters of bianisotropic metamaterials

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Apr;71(4 Pt 2):046610. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046610. Epub 2005 Apr 18.

Abstract

We propose a method to retrieve the effective constitutive parameters of a slab of bianisotropic metamaterial composed of split-ring resonators from the measurement of the S parameters. Analytical inversion equations are derived for homogeneous loss-less bianisotropic media, and a numerical retrieval approach is presented for the case of lossy bianisotropic media. The method is verified both analytically and numerically, and it is shown that the results for various split-ring resonator metamaterials qualitatively corroborate the conclusions found in published papers. The proposed retrieval method can be used as a valuable tool for the study of anisotropic and bianisotropic properties of metamaterials.