cst metamaterial

Hello All,

I have been trying to simulate a metamaterial on CST, but each time I enter a negative epsilon it gives an error. Do you have any idea how to define a metamaterial on CST?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Adel

Hello Adel,

try to define a new material and under the point "Dispersion" you can enter an user defined dispersion curve for the dielectric dispersion (eps=-1) and for the magnetic dispersion (mu=-1).

I didn't try it - but it maybe work!?

Greetings,

Frank

Hello Meta_Frank,

Thanks for your help.

I tried this method, but it always tries to fit eps' using a positive sign, it does not allow eps' to be negative at certain frequencies.

Do you think that there are any other method that can be used ?

best regards,
Adel

r u designing metamaterial structure using the CST?
can i use the fidelity or IE3D in Zeland software to design the metamaterial?

Hello,

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I have tried this a few years ago in CST. As you said, it doesn't allow any mu/eps with negative real parts. So I switched to HFSS.

HFSS is capable of simulating any combination of eps/mu with any sign and loss. I have compared analytical formulations for different media with HFSS and they were pretty accurate...