Planar horn antenna: Application of periodic stacked subwavelength hole array with metamaterials proprieties

Author

Abessolo, M.A.A. ; Aznabet, M. ; Alilouch, A. ; Mrabet, O. ; Essaaidi, M. ; Beruete, M. ; Navarro-Cia, M. ; Falcone, F. ; Sorolla, M. ; Aknin, N. ; El Moussaoui, M.

Author_Institution

LaSIT, Abdelmalek Essaadi Univ., Tetouan, Morocco

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

In this paper, we study a planar horn antenna fed by a rectangular waveguide operating in the fundamental mode. The aim of this work is to enhance gain by periodic stacked subwavelength hole array. We applied several types of holes with different thicknesses of the metal plate and with varied distance between the periodic stacked subwavelength hole array and the antenna. We found a good improvement of gain from 6 to 17.5 dB in some cases. We also showed that the directivity of the antenna is good in the case of transverse resonance.

Keywords

antenna feeds; horn antennas; metamaterials; planar antenna arrays; rectangular waveguides; antenna fed; directive antenna; metamaterials; periodic stacked subwavelength hole array; planar horn antenna; rectangular waveguide; transverse resonance; Antenna arrays; Attenuation; Band pass filters; Cutoff frequency; Design optimization; Horn antennas; Insertion loss; Magnetic separation; Matched filters; Metamaterials; Horn antenna; extraordinary transmission; metamaterials; transversal resonance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2009 Mediterrannean

Conference_Location

Tangiers

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4664-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4665-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMS.2009.5409783

Filename

5409783