B13  Electromagnetic Materials and Devices

Saturday, January 6  08:20-11:00  Room 135

Session Chairs:  Filippo Capolino, Jacob Adams

08:20  B13-1  PLASMA VARACTOR FOR RECONFIGURABLE RF/MICROWAVE SYSTEMS

Abbas Semnani*, Sergey O. Macheret, Dimitrios D. Peroulis

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN


08:40  B13-2  HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE TUNABLE RESISTOR BASED ON LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA TECHNOLOGY

Abbas Semnani*, Sergey O. Macheret, Dimitrios Peroulis

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN


09:00  B13-3  EXPERIMENTALLY CHARACTERIZED 3D MAPS OF CARBON NANOTUBE DISTRIBUTIONS: TESTBEDS FOR ACCURATE ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING OF NANOCOMPOSITES

Md Khadimul Islam*1, Spencer On1, Ahmed M. Hassan1, Bharath Natarajan2, Itai Y. Stein3, Estelle Cohen3, Brian L. Wardle3, Renu Sharma4, J. Alexander Liddle4, Edward J. Garboczi5

1Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
2Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
3Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
4Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
5Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado


09:20  B13-4  TWO-SCALE CONCEPT FOR FIELD ENHANCEMENT AT OPTICAL FREQUENCY: COMBINATION OF RAYLEIGH ANOMALY AND PLASMONIC RESONANCES

Mahsa Darvishzadeh Varcheie*, Filippo Capolino

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, Irvine, California


09:40  B13-5  DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CHIRAL NANO-SAMPLES USING PHOTO-INDUCED FORCE

Mohammad Kamandi*, Mohammad Albooyeh, Filippo Capolino

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, Irvine, California


10:20  B13-6  OVER THE AIR VALIDATION OF AN HF BROADBAND DIRECT ANTENNA MODULATION TRANSMITTER

Kurt R. Schab*, Danyang Huang, Jacob J. Adams

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC


10:40  B13-7  UHF SATCOM ANTENNA USING A MAGNETICALLY LOADED ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTOR

Katherine J. Duncan1, Frank A. Vassallo*2, Daniel T. Bennett1, Juan C. Correa3, Thomas P. Ketterl4, Thomas M. Weller4

1EECS, United States Military Academy, west point NY
2TECOMSYS, Clearwater, FL
3Department of Defense, Baltimore MD
4EECS, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL