Metamaterial Loaded Compact Multiband Monopole Antenna for Wireless Applications

Authors

  • Shiney Thankachan Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India
  • Binu Paul Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India
  • Anju Pradeep Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India
  • Pezholil Mohanan Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India
  • Remsha Moolat Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370701

Keywords:

Metamaterial (MTM), Double Negative material (DNG), Monopole antenna, Multiband antenna, WLAN, WiMAX

Abstract

This paper proposes the design of a compact monopole antenna loaded with metamaterial (MTM), for multiband operation for wireless local area network (WLAN) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) applications. The monopole antenna is originally designed to operate in 2.8 GHz and 6 GHz The placement of MTM yields one additional band at 3.5 GHz corresponding to WiMAX with a shift in frequency of the original monopole to the WLAN frequencies of 2.4 GHz and 5.5 GHz with improved matching at the higher band. Dependencies of resonant frequencies on various parameters are formulated through regression analysis and a design equation for the proposed antenna is developed. The full-wave simulation and design equation of the three resonances show a negligible difference. A comparative study of the developed monopole with reported antennas shows that the developed structure is compact with an overall dimension of 19 x 31 mm2. The measured results of the antenna show good impedance bandwidth of 6.25%, 24.57%, and 16.54% for the three bands centered at 2.4, 3.5, and 5.5 GHz The antenna compactness is obtained due to metamaterial loading. All the simulated radiation characteristics of the proposed antenna are validated experimentally. The proposed antenna obtains a compact electrical size of 0.248x0.152 λ02 at 2.4 GHz. with multi-band operations at frequencies 2.4 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 5.5 GHz corresponding to WLAN and WiMAX.

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Author Biographies

Shiney Thankachan, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India

Shiney Thankachan was born in Kerala, India in 1979. She received her B-Tech and M-Tech degrees from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India in 2001 and 2010 respectively. She is currently a research scholar at the School of Engineering, CUSAT, Cochin. Her interests include Metamaterials, Planar antennas, and computational electromagnetics.

Binu Paul, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India

Binu Paul was born in Kerala, India in 1971. She received her M-Tech and Ph.D. degrees from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India in 1996 and 2006 respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, CUSAT, Cochin. Her research interests include planar antennas, computational electromagnetics, and compact planar filters. She is a member of IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society and IEEE-WIE.

Anju Pradeep, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India

Anju Pradeep was born in Kerala, India in 1972. She received her M-Tech and Ph.D. degrees from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India in 2008 and 2015 respectively. She is currently a Professor at the School of Engineering, CUSAT, Cochin. Her research interests include metamaterials and optimization techniques for electromagnetics. She is a member of IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society and IEEE-WIE.

Pezholil Mohanan, Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India

Pezholil Mohanan was born in India on May 30th, 1956. He received his Ph.D. degree in Microwave antennas from Cochin University of Science & Technology in 1985. From 1980 until 1986, he worked as a Lecturer in Physics at St. Albert’s College, Cochin. He spent two years in Bharat Electronics (BEL), Ghaziabad as an Engineer in Antenna R&D Laboratory. Since 1989, he has been working as a faculty of the Department of Electronics, CUSAT, and is presently working as a Professor in the department. His current areas of research activities are microstrip antennas, fdtd analysis, dielectric resonator antennas, superconducting microwave antennas, leaky wave antennas, reduction of radar cross section, and microwave instrumentation, among others. He is a member of IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society and IEEE Microwave & Theory and Techniques Society.

Remsha Moolat, Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi-22, Kerala, India

Remsha M received an M.Sc degree in Electronics Science from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India, in 2013 and is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in Microwave Engineering at Cochin University of Science and Technology. Her main research interests include microwave sensors for material characterization, microwave measurement techniques, Stepped Impedance resonators, Antennas, and Substrate integrated waveguides.

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Published

2022-12-29

How to Cite

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S. . Thankachan, B. . Paul, A. . Pradeep, P. . Mohanan, and R. . Moolat, “Metamaterial Loaded Compact Multiband Monopole Antenna for Wireless Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 07, pp. 750–756, Dec. 2022.

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2022: Vol 37 Iss 7

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