Reducing the coupling of metamaterial via random configuration

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate the Anderson localization effect in coupled metamaterial structures. We introduce the random variables by randomly choosing the geometrical parameter of structures and randomly choosing the distance between structures to reduce the coupling of metamaterial and this decoupling effect is equivalent to Anderson localization effect, which can reduce the coupling without enlarging the area of unit cell. We demonstrate our idea by employing the experiments. Furthermore, we present an example of deflector to see how this decoupling effect can help us design functional devices.