Circuit modelling for the design of metamaterials for microwave applications.

随着3D打印令人兴奋的出现，这种革命性的新制造技术可以实现低成本，低浪费和高度可定制的制造形式。这项研究旨在通过探索真正的3D超材料结构来充分利用3D打印。汤姆正在研究这种3D超材料的等效电路建模，目的是建立一个超材料结构库。通过这种方法，可以将包含目标参数和理想响应的等效电路提供给软件程序，以生成相应的真实的超材料，从而实现微波电路的快速原型制作。理论/分析建模，计算机模拟和实验测量将用于推导等效超材料电路模型。

With the exciting advent of 3D printing, this revolutionary new manufacturing technique allows for low cost, low waste and highly customizable form of manufacturing. This research aims to take full advantage of 3D printing by exploring true 3D metamaterial structures. Tom is researching into the equivalent circuit modelling of such 3D metamaterials with the aim of building a library of metamaterial structures. With this an equivalent circuit containing target parameters and ideal responses can be given to a software program to generate a corresponding real world metamaterial to enable rapid prototyping of microwave circuits. Theoretical/analytical modelling, computer simulations and experimental measurement will be used to derive equivalent metamaterial circuit models.