The distinctive features and properties of metamaterials containing the constitutive particles composed of tightly coupled pairs of the dogbone shaped conductors and planar spirals are discussed. The results of the full-wave simulations and measurements of the scattering characteristics of such arrays will be presented to illustrate the main concepts of such artificial media. © 2009 IEEE.

We present a fully printable effective negative refractive index (NRI) metamaterial responsive to arbitrarily linearly polarized incident waves. The proposed metamaterial is composed of a periodic array of tightly coupled Jerusalem cross conductor pairs printed on the opposite sides of a dielectric substrate. Each pair supports both symmetric and antisymmetric resonance modes, whose superposition can lead to an effective NRI of the composite medium. A thorough characterization of the transmission properties of such metamaterial is performed, and conclusive evidences of the medium exhibiting effective NRI properties and impedance matching to free space are presented for a range of the structure parameters. © 2006 IEEE.