Metamaterial-Inspired Engineering of Antennas

Author

Ziolkowski, Richard W. ; Jin, Peng ; Lin, Chia-Ching

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

99

Issue

10

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1720

Lastpage

1731

Abstract

A variety of antennas have been engineered with metamaterials (MTMs) and metamaterial-inspired constructs to improve their performance characteristics. Examples include electrically small, near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP) antennas that require no matching network and have high radiation efficiencies. Experimental verification of their predicted behaviors has been obtained. Recent developments with this NFRP electrically small paradigm will be reviewed. They include considerations of increased bandwidths, as well as multiband and multifunctional extensions.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; metamaterial antennas; multifrequency antennas; electrically small antennas; metamaterial-inspired constructs; metamaterial-inspired engineering; multiband extensions; multifunctional extensions; near-field resonant parasitic antennas; radiation efficiency; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Finite element methods; Magnetic flux; Magnetic resonance; Parasitic capacitance; Antenna efficiency; antenna theory; electrically small antennas; metamaterials (MTMs); parasitics; quality factors;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2010.2091610

Filename

5674065