IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Advanced Technologies in Antennas and Propagation in Conjunction with Main Topics of ISAP2009
Bandwidth and Gain Enhancement of Microstrip Patch Antennas Using Reflective Metasurface
Sarawuth CHAIMOOLKwok L. CHUNGPrayoot AKKARAEKTHALIN
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2010 Volume E93.B Issue 10 Pages 2496-2503

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Bandwidth and gain enhancement of microstrip patch antennas (MPAs) is proposed using reflective metasurface (RMS) as a superstrate. Two different types of the RMS, namely- the double split-ring resonator (DSR) and double closed-ring resonator (DCR) are separately investigated. The two antenna prototypes were manufactured, measured and compared. The experimental results confirm that the RMS loaded MPAs achieve high-gain as well as bandwidth improvement. The desinged antenna using the RMS as a superstrate has a high-gain of over 9.0dBi and a wide impedance bandwidth of over 13%. The RMS is also utilized to achieve a thin antenna with a cavity height of 6 mm, which is equivalent to λ/21 at the center frequency of 2.45GHz. At the same time, the cross polarization level and front-to-back ratio of these antennas are also examined.

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