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Active and Passive Electronic Components
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 498146, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/498146
Composite Right- and Left-Handed Traveling-Wave Field-Effect Transistors
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa, Yamagata 992-8510, Japan
Received 27 March 2012; Revised 27 June 2012; Accepted 11 July 2012
Academic Editor: Egidio Ragonese
Copyright © 2012 Koichi Narahara. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We introduce a composite right- and left-handed travelling-wave field-effect transistor (CRLH TWFET) for developing large-scale platform to support left-handed waves. The device represents two electromagnetically coupled CRLH transmission lines by capacitance and FET transconductance. Owing to the couplings, two different modes can support waves in CRLH TWFETs. It was experimentally established that waves supported by one of the modes were amplified, while those supported by the other mode were significantly attenuated. To quantify the wave propagation in CRLH TWFETs, we developed a numerical model based on the transmission line theory that well simulated measured results. This paper discusses the results of numerical calculations that validate the design criteria of CRLH TWFETs.