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Investigation of grid metamaterial and EBG structures and its application to patch antenna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2014

Anand Kumar ,
Dinesh Kumar V ,
Jitendra Mohan  and
Hari Om Gupta
Anand Kumar*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JAYPEE Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
Dinesh Kumar V
Affiliation:
Electronics and Communication Engineering, PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India
Jitendra Mohan
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JAYPEE Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
Hari Om Gupta
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JAYPEE Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
*
Corresponding author A. Kumar Email: anandkaushiks@gmail.com
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new design of metamaterial and electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure based on double layers of metallic grids. Using finite integration technique, the electromagnetic properties of the grid structure have been investigated and this structure has been employed to enhance the performance of a patch antenna working at 11 GHz. The surface waves in the substrate of antenna have been suppressed by EBG behavior of the grid when used as a substrate, and it improves its gain to 9.21 dB from 5.64 dB. When this structure is also used as superstrate of the antenna, the gain up to 13 dB has been achieved due to its metamaterial behavior. Congregation effect of metamaterial provides a huge improvement in the directionality of the antenna and its half power beam width (HPBW) has been improved to 32.7° and 31.5° from 108.3° and 93.5° in E-and H-planes, respectively.

Keywords

Metamaterials and Photonic bandgap structuresAntenna designModeling and measurements
Type
Research Paper
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 7 , Issue 6 , December 2015 , pp. 705 - 712
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2014 

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