Design of a Printed Metamaterial-Inspired Electrically Small Huygens Source Antenna for Cognitive Radio Applications

Authors

  • Imen Ben Trad King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Hatem Rmili King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Muntasir Sheikh King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Bandar Hakim King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
  • Jean-Marie Floch IETR, INSA, 20 Avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, 35708 Rennes, France

Keywords:

CLL-NFRP element, electric NFRP element, ESAs, Huygens source, metamaterial-inspired antenna

Abstract

Metamaterial-inspired electric- and magneticbased near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) elements are electrically coupled to a coaxial-fed printed monopole to realize an electrically small, ka = 0.49 (λₒ/9.41 x λₒ/14.11 x λₒ/104.18) Huygens source antenna that operates at the GSM1800 frequency. The electric NFRP element is a meander patch; the magnetic element is a Capacitively Loaded Loop (CLL). The individual electric- and magnetic-based antennas were studied numerically to ensure they had overlapping frequency behavior near the GSM frequency 1.8 GHz; high radiation efficiency; and very good matching to their 50 Ω sources. They were combined together and retuned to create a three metal – two dielectric layer Huygens source antenna. A 20 nH inductor was inserted between the driven monopole and the SMA connector in order to enhance the input impedance matching. A prototype of this antenna was fabricated and experimentally characterized. The measurements confirmed the Huygens source nature of the prototype antenna.

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Author Biographies

Imen Ben Trad, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Imen Ben Trad received a degree in Electronics, Computer and Information Science from the University Tunis El Manar, Tunisia in 2008 and the Master thesis in System of Communications from the Faculty of Science of Tunis, Tunisia in 2011. She received the Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from the University of Tunis El Manar and, INSA Rennes, France 2017. From April 2017 to August 2019, she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with IETR at INSA Rennes, in collaboration with King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Her research mainly focuses on the development of design of antennas for wireless applications.

Hatem Rmili, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Hatem Rmili received the B.S. degree in General Physics from the Science Faculty of Monastir, Tunisia in 1995, and the DEA diploma from the Science Faculty of Tunis, Tunisia, in Quantum Mechanics, in 1999. He received the Ph.D. degree in Physics (Electronics) from both the University of Tunis, Tunisia, and the University of Bordeaux 1, France, in 2004. From December 2004 to March, 2005, he was a Research Assistant in the PIOM Laboratory at the University of Bordeaux 1. During March 2005 to March 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rennes Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, France. From March to September 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ESEO Engineering School, Angers, France. From September 2007 to August 2012, he was an associate professor with the Mahdia Institute of Applied Science and Technology (ISSAT), department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Tunisia. Actually, he is Full Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Rmili’s research interests concern applied electromagnetic applications involving antennas, metamaterials and métasurfaces. The main targeted applications are reconfigurable antennas for multi-standard wireless communications systems, security of chipless RFID systems with fractal tags, terahertz photoconductive antennas for infra-red energy harvesting, UWB nano rectennas for collection of solar energy, phase shifters for low-cost 5G communication systems, and microwave absorbing materials for stealth technologies.

Muntasir Sheikh, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Muntasir Sheikh received his B.Sc. from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, in Electronics and Communications Engineering, M.Sc. in RF Communications Engineering from the University of Bradford, U.K., and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, U.S.A. Since then he has been teaching in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. in KAU. His research interests are Antenna Theory and Design, Radar applications, and electromagnetic metamaterials.

Bandar Hakim, King Abdulaziz University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

Bandar Hakim Bandar Hakim is an Assistant Professor of Electrophysics at KAU. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrophysics from the University of Maryland. He worked with the Medical Robotics Group at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health at the Food and Drug Administration in Washington DC and the Neurology department at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the New York NY. He served as an industrial consultant in the US, Switzerland and Germany.

Jean-Marie Floch, IETR, INSA, 20 Avenue des Buttes de Coësmes, 35708 Rennes, France

Jean Marie Floch received his Ph.D. in Electronics in 1992 from the INSA Rennes, France. He joined the IETR Institute as Research Engineer where he supervised Master and Ph.D. Students, in addition to the execution of many research projects with collaboration of the industry. His research interests concern the design of different type of antennas for wireless applications.

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Published

2020-07-01

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Imen Ben Trad, Hatem Rmili, Muntasir Sheikh, Bandar Hakim, and Jean-Marie Floch, “Design of a Printed Metamaterial-Inspired Electrically Small Huygens Source Antenna for Cognitive Radio Applications”, ACES Journal, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 837–842, Jul. 2020.

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2020: Vol 35 Iss 7

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