K. K. Gupta

Photonic bandgap crystals on magnetic-dielectric for microwave frequency applications

The variation of magnetic permeability of substrate on Photonic Band Gap (PBG) has been studied for microstrip type periodic metallic structure and the experimental findings will be presented and discussed. Periodic structure was carved out in the metallic foil of 18 micron thickness and was put on the composite of magnetic and dielectric substrate. As the dielectric constant of the substrate affects the band gap for the photons in the microwave region, the combined effect of magneto-dielectric substrate have been studied here for different combination of ferrite materials with different composition and different sintering temperature. The substrate of Ni-Zn ferrite was prepared on the Perspex sheet of desired dimensions. The behavior of variation of band gap was also been studied for the air as dielectric material of the substrate. We found a well defined PBG and the band gap increases and transmission loss decreases in the microwave region with appropriate combination of magnetic and dielectric substrate. Thus it could be concluded that the dielectric constant viz. a viz. magnetic permeability plays an important role in the formation of broad band photonic materials for the microwave applications such as filters, antennas, frequency selective surfaces etc. Further work is going on to fabricate the patch antenna on the PBG embedded ground plane.

Characterization and analysis of high temperature superconducting microstrip and coplanar resonators using a spectral domain method

Microwave characteristics of planar high temperature superconducting microstrip line resonator (MSR) and coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators have been estimated using a full wave spectral domain technique in conjunction with the complex resistive boundary condition. The computer aided design method developed is applied to simulate the characteristics of planar resonators. The proposed method has been validated with experimental results after taking into account the practical operating conditions. A reasonable agreement for the theoretically computed and measured resonant frequency and unloaded Q-value with experimental data of Porch et al (1995 IEEE Microw. Theory Technol. 2 306?14) has been observed for the MSR operated at 5?GHz as well as for the CPW resonator at 7.95?GHz.