Compact Tri-band Metamaterial Antenna for Wireless Applications

Authors

  • Sheeja K. L. Department of Electrical Engineering National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India.
  • Prasanna Kumar Sahu Department of Electrical Engineering National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India.
  • Santanu Kumar Behera Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India.
  • Nabil Dakhli Research Unit of Telecommunication Systems (6Tel) at Sup’Com, Tunisia.

Keywords:

Composite Right/Left Handed Transmission Line, Metamaterials, Omnidirectional antennas, Zeroth Order Resonant antenna

Abstract

A novel compact triband coplanar waveguide fed metamaterial antenna is proposed. The left-handed (LH) inductance is provided by two parallel short ended spiral inductors. We achieved pentamodes of resonance consisting of negative modes, zeroth mode and positive modes. The resonance frequency at each of these modes are f-2=1.01 GHz, f-1=2.11GHz, f0=2.48 GHz, f+1= 3.04 GHz and f+2=3.54GHz with triband functionality obtained at f-2, f0 and f+2 resonances. Gain of the proposed structure at f-2, f0 and f+2 resonances is found to be -3.4993dB, 1.559dB and 1.9515dB respectively. The proposed antenna is measured at Antenna Measurement Facility (AMF) and results were compared with the simulated results. A good agreement between the measured and the simulated results validates the proposed design. The antenna radiates omni-directional waves in the horizontal plane. The proposed antenna serves the criteria for modern multiband wireless applications with an additional feature of increased bandwidth at the zeroth mode. The proposed multiband antenna is suitable for wireless communication applications such as the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) 900 in 1.01GHz, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) in the 2.48 GHz band (2.459 - 2.4924)GHz of IEEE 802.11b/g ISM band and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMax) standards in the 3.54GHz band (3.491-3.596)GHz of IEEE 802.11a. This proposed antenna is most suitable for precise multiband wireless communication systems which include the mobile and wireless local area network (WLAN) systems due to their large service area.

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Published

2021-11-12

How to Cite

[1]
S. . K. L., P. K. . Sahu, S. K. . Behera, and N. . Dakhli, “Compact Tri-band Metamaterial Antenna for Wireless Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 947–955, Nov. 2021.

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2012: Vol 27 Iss 11

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