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Near-zero metamaterial inspired UHF antenna for nanosatellite communication system

Alam T 1 , Islam MT 2 , Cho M 3

Affiliations 

  • 1 Centre of Advanced Electronic & Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor D.E., 43600, Malaysia. touhid13@siswa.ukm.edu.my
  • 2 Centre of Advanced Electronic & Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor D.E., 43600, Malaysia. tariqul@ukm.edu.my
  • 3 Laboratory of Spacecraft Environment Interaction Engineering (LaSEINE), Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka, Japan
Sci Rep, 2019 Mar 05;9(1):3441.
PMID: 30837629 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40207-3

Abstract

Epsilon-and-mu-near-zero (EMNZ) metamaterial structure inspired UHF antenna for nanosatellite has been proposed in this paper. The antenna consists of 3 × 2-unit cell array on the ground plane and a meander line radiating patch. Coaxial probe feeding technique has been obtained to excite the antenna. The meander line enables the antenna to resonate at lower UHF band and the metamaterial array is used to make the resonant frequency stable by reducing the coupling effect with metallic nanosatellite structure. The metamaterial structure exhibits EMNZ characteristics from 385 MHz to 488.5 MHz, which facilitates stable resonant frequency and higher antenna efficiency when embedded with nanosatellite structure. The proposed EMNZ inspired antenna has achieved measured impedance bandwidth (S11 

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