Comapct and tunable metamaterial antenna for multi-band wireless communication applications

Author

Abdalla, Mahmoud A. ; Hu, Zhirun

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., MTC Univ., Cairo, Egypt

fYear

2011

fDate

3-8 July 2011

Firstpage

1054

Lastpage

1057

Abstract

This paper presents a novel compact and tunable metamaterials antenna. A compact left handed transmission line resonator antenna implemented on ferrite substrate is designed to have tunable operation frequency from 5.25 GHz to 5.8 GHz. The antenna length is only 5.8 mm length which is only 45% compared to a conventional antenna operates at the same frequency. The operation frequency can be tuned by varying the applied DC magnetic bias applied to the ferrite substrate. The antenna structure has small demagnetization factor and hence requires small external DC magnetic bias.

Keywords

metamaterial antennas; metamaterials; microwave antennas; radio networks; DC magnetic bias; ferrite substrate; frequency 5.25 GHz to 5.8 GHz; left handed transmission line resonator antenna; multiband wireless communication applications; size 5.8 mm; tunable metamaterial antenna; Antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Ferrites; Magnetic resonance; Shunt (electrical); Substrates; antenna; left handed; metamaterials; periodic structure; resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (APSURSI), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Spokane, WA

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9562-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2011.5996461

Filename

5996461