Horn antennas loaded with metamaterial for Ku band application

Author

Lashab, Mohamed ; Zebiri, C. ; Benabdelaziz, F. ; Jan, Naeem Ahmed ; Abd-Alhameed, R.A.

Author_Institution

Electron. Dept., Skikda Univ., Skikda, Algeria

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 April 2014

Firstpage

1372

Lastpage

1375

Abstract

A Split Ring Resonator (SRR) as Metamaterial has been loaded on pyramidal horn antennas for Ku band or satellite application. The aim of this work is to exhibit the advantage of metamaterial (SRR) use inside horn antenna; this is mainly enhancement of the bandwidth towards lower frequency and improvement of the radiation pattern gain. The horn antenna is feed by a monopole antenna of optimized length. The obtained results from HFSS simulation concerning the constitutive parameters of the (SRR), show that there is a DNG (Double Negative) permeability and permittivity in the frequency of interest. In this work the operating bandwidth of the proposed antenna (notched band) is in the range of 9.80 GHz to 10.30 GHz, and 10.80 GHz to 11.20 GHz as Ku or satellite application.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; horn antennas; metamaterial antennas; microwave antennas; monopole antennas; permeability; permittivity; satellite antennas; DNG permeability; Ku band application; SRR; double negative permeability; frequency 10.80 GHz to 11.20 GHz; frequency 9.80 GHz to 10.30 GHz; metamaterial; monopole antenna; permittivity; pyramidal horn antennas; radiation pattern gain; satellite application; split ring resonator; Horn antennas; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Permittivity; Resonant frequency; Satellite antennas; DNG; Horn antennas; Metamaterial; Return loss; Satellite; constitutive parameters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3823-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911410

Filename

6911410