Microstrip Patch Antenna Covered With Left Handed Metamaterial

Authors

  • E. Dogan Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Mustafa Kemal, Iskenderun 31040, Hatay, Turkey
  • E. Unal Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Mustafa Kemal, Iskenderun 31040, Hatay, Turkey
  • D. Kapusuz Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Mustafa Kemal, Iskenderun 31040, Hatay, Turkey
  • M. Karaaslan Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Mustafa Kemal, Iskenderun 31040, Hatay, Turkey
  • C. Sabah Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus, Kalkanli, Guzelyurt, TRNC / Mersin 10, Turkey

Keywords:

Effective parameters, FDTD, gain, patch antenna, metamaterial, split ring resonator

Abstract

We present gain characteristics of microstrip patch antennas covered with metamaterial substrate composed of split-ring resonators (SRRs) and metallic strip. To determine the performance of the SRR-metallic strip mounted on microstrip patch antenna, the metamaterial has been proposed as an effective medium with extracted constitutive parameters. Simulation results are supported by experimental measurements. The experimental results confirm that the metamaterial covered patch antenna improves gain by an amount of -5.68 dB (60.3%) as well as radiation pattern (-8 dB to +20 dB) at WLAN communication.

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Published

2021-09-03

How to Cite

[1]
E. . Dogan, E. . Unal, D. . Kapusuz, M. . Karaaslan, and C. . Sabah, “Microstrip Patch Antenna Covered With Left Handed Metamaterial”, ACES Journal, vol. 29, no. 02, pp. 178–183, Sep. 2021.

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2014: Vol 29 Iss 2

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