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Compact Ultra-Wideband Monopole Antenna Loaded with Metamaterial

Al-Bawri SS 1 , Hwang Goh H 2 , Islam MS 1 , Wong HY 1 , Jamlos MF 3 , Narbudowicz A 4 Show all authors , Jusoh M 5 , Sabapathy T 5 , Khan R 6 , Islam MT 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, 63100 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 2 School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
  • 3 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan 26600, Pahang, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Telecommunications and Teleinformatics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw 50-370, Poland
  • 5 Bioelectromagnetics Research Group (BioEM), School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Kampus Pauh Putra, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia
  • 6 Department of Research and Development, Laird Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd, Penang 13600, Malaysia
  • 7 Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, UKM, Bangi 43600, Selangor, Malaysia
Sensors (Basel), 2020 Jan 31;20(3).
PMID: 32024016 DOI: 10.3390/s20030796

Abstract

A printed compact monopole antenna based on a single negative (SNG) metamaterial is proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. A low-profile, key-shaped structure forms the radiating monopole and is loaded with metamaterial unit cells with negative permittivity and more than 1.5 GHz bandwidth of near-zero refractive index (NZRI) property. The antenna offers a wide bandwidth from 3.08 to 14.1 GHz and an average gain of 4.54 dBi, with a peak gain of 6.12 dBi; this is in contrast to the poor performance when metamaterial is not used. Moreover, the maximum obtained radiation efficiency is 97%. A reasonable agreement between simulation and experiments is realized, demonstrating that the proposed antenna can operate over a wide bandwidth with symmetric split-ring resonator (SSRR) metamaterial structures and compact size of 14.5 × 22 mm2 (0.148 λ0 × 0.226 λ0) with respect to the lowest operating frequency.

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