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Abstract

An exhaustive numerical analysis is presented on the effects of defect layers and electric and magnetic loss factors on the transmission spectrum of one-dimensional metamaterial photonic crystal. The proposed structure is a symmetrical multilayer configuration consisting of alternating layers of lossy metamaterial and double-positive material, with a defective region in the middle. The study shows that one or more defect transmission modes are generated in photonic band gaps. The optical properties have been numerically analyzed and simulated using the transfer matrix method. Parameters, such as permittivity, thickness and number of the defect layers, influence the band gap width and the tunability of the defect peak frequency. The effects of the electric and magnetic loss factors (or damping frequencies) of the metamaterial on the intensity and on the quality factor of the defect modes are also well observed. The analysis is validated by comparing the results to some available in the literature, and the proposed structure can be exploited in the design of narrowband filters in the microwave domain.

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Dr. Rawdha Thabet

Dr. Ouarda Barkat

Professor Mohamed Lahdi Riabi