Left handed metamaterial design for microstrip antenna application

Author

Majid, Huda A. ; Rahim, Mohamad Kamal A ; Masri, Thelaha

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai

fYear

2008

fDate

2-4 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

218

Lastpage

221

Abstract

This paper describes the design and simulation of the left-handed metamaterial structure incorporated with a single microstrip patch antenna. The combination of the modified square rectangular split ring (SRR) and the capacitance loaded strip (CLS) was used to obtain the negative value of permeability, mu_r and the negative permittivity, epsiv_r. From the simulation done, the gain of the antenna has been increased up to 4 dB. This had proven that the LH MTM can enhance the gain of the antenna.

Keywords

cavity resonators; metamaterials; microstrip antennas; permeability; permittivity; antenna gain; capacitance loaded strip; left handed metamaterial design; microstrip antenna application; modified square rectangular split ring resonator; negative permittivity; permeability; single microstrip patch antenna; Capacitance; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Directive antennas; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Microstrip antennas; Microwave antennas; Permeability; Permittivity; Left-Handed Metamaterial; Microstrip Antenna; negative permeability; negative permittivity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RF and Microwave Conference, 2008. RFM 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2866-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2867-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFM.2008.4897426

Filename

4897426