Making Meta Better: The Synthesis of New-Shaped Periodic Artificial Structures Suitable for Metamaterial Behavior Characterization

Extensive research in the electromagnetics area has been conducted recently with the goal of developing novel artificial metamaterials-or left-handed (LH) materials-at microwave frequencies. The idea of negative magnetic permeability and negative electric permittivity as electromagnetic properties for LH materials was initially theorized by Veselago in 1968 [1]. LH materials are not found in nature, so engineers must modify a structure's geometry to achieve LH behavior.