Circuit modeling of the transmissivity of stacked two-dimensional metallic meshes.

This paper presents a simple analytical circuit-like model to study the transmission of electromagnetic waves through stacked two-dimensional (2-D) conducting meshes. When possible the application of this methodology is very convenient since it provides a straightforward rationale to understand the physical mechanisms behind measured and computed transmission spectra of complex geometries. Also, the disposal of closed-form expressions for the circuit parameters makes the computation effort required by this approach almost negligible. The model is tested by proper comparison with previously obtained numerical and experimental results. The experimental results are explained in terms of the behavior of a finite number of strongly coupled Fabry-Pérot resonators. The number of transmission peaks within a transmission band is equal to the number of resonators. The approximate resonance frequencies of the first and last transmission peaks are obtained from the analysis of an infinite structure of periodically stacked resonators, along with the analytical expressions for the lower and upper limits of the pass-band based on the circuit model.

Wideband analytical equivalent circuit for one-dimensional periodic stacked arrays.

A wideband equivalent circuit is proposed for the accurate analysis of scattering from a set of stacked slit gratings illuminated by a plane wave with transverse magnetic or electric polarization that impinges normally or obliquely along one of the principal planes of the structure. The slit gratings are printed on dielectric slabs of arbitrary thickness, including the case of closely spaced gratings that interact by higher-order modes. A Π-circuit topology is obtained for a pair of coupled arrays, with fully analytical expressions for all the circuit elements. This equivalent Π circuit is employed as the basis to derive the equivalent circuit of finite stacks with any given number of gratings. Analytical expressions for the Brillouin diagram and the Bloch impedance are also obtained for infinite periodic stacks.

Cloaking of single and multiple elliptical cylinders and strips with confocal elliptical nanostructured graphene metasurface.

In this paper, we present a novel analytical approach for cloaking of dielectric and metallic elliptical cylinders with a graphene monolayer and a nanostructured graphene metasurface at low-terahertz frequencies. The analytical approach is based on the solution of the electromagnetic scattering problem in terms of elliptical waves represented by the radial and angular even and odd Mathieu functions, with the use of sheet impedance boundary conditions at the metasurface. It is shown that scattering cancellation occurs for all incident and observation angles. A special case concerns cloaking of a 2D metallic strip represented by a degenerated ellipse, wherein the focal points of the cloak metasurface correspond to the edges of the strip. The analytical approach has been extended in order to cloak a cluster of elliptical objects for different cases of closely spaced, merging, and overlapping configurations. The results obtained by our analytical approach are validated with full-wave numerical simulations.