A High Gain Antenna With an Optimized Metamaterial Inspired Superstrate

Author

Dongying Li ; Szabo, Zsolt ; Xianming Qing ; Li, Er-Ping ; Zhi Ning Chen

Author_Institution

Inst. of High Performance Comput., Agency of Sci., Technol. & Res. (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

Volume

60

Issue

12

fYear

2012

Firstpage

6018

Lastpage

6023

Abstract

A metamaterial unit cell with a low refractive index over a wide frequency band is proposed and designed. The effective material parameters of the unit cell are extracted, and the unit cell forms a planar three-layer metamaterial structure used as a superstrate for broadside gain enhancement of a patch antenna at 10 GHz. The proposed superstrate is optimized along with the antenna to enhance its beam-focusing ability, taking into account the oblique wave incidence from the radiation source. Both simulation and measurement of the antenna with the optimized superstrate show that this configuration is able to achieve a broadside gain 70%-80% of the maximum gain from the ideal effective radiation surface.

Keywords

metamaterial antennas; microstrip antennas; refractive index; antenna measurement; beam-focusing ability; broadside gain enhancement; frequency 10 GHz; high gain antenna; low refractive index; metamaterial unit cell; oblique wave incidence; optimized metamaterial inspired superstrate; optimized superstrate; patch antenna; planar three-layer metamaterial structure; radiation source; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Frequency measurement; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Scattering parameters; Effective material parameters; high gain antennas; low index metamaterials;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2012.2213231

Filename

6268327