A numerical investigation of sub-wavelength resonances in polygonal metamaterial cylinders

The sub-wavelength resonances, known to exist in metamaterial radiators and scatterers of circular cylindrical shape, are investigated with the aim of determining if these resonances also exist for polygonal cylinders and, if so, how they are affected by the shape of the polygon. To this end, a set of polygonal cylinders excited by a nearby electric line current is analyzed numerically and it is shown, through detailed analysis of the near-field distribution and radiation resistance, that these polygonal cylinders do indeed support sub-wavelength resonances similar to those of the circular cylinders. The dispersion and loss, inevitably present in realistic metamaterials, are modeled by the Drude and Lorentz dispersion models to study the bandwidth properties of the resonances.