Parametric analysis of the strain-dependent behavior of a metamaterial electric resonator

In this paper, we describe the strain-dependent behavior of an electric-LC (ELC) resonator unit cell, commonly used in metamaterial designs. We leverage analytic expression to understand the way strain manifests itself in a change in electromagnetic (EM) response. We verify the simplified physical models using full-wave simulations and generalize the trends to accommodate the strain profile for any arbitrary plane-stress loading scenario.

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