Title :
Investigation of Left-Handed Meta Material in microstrip antenna application
Author :
Majid, Huda A. ; Rahim, Mohamad Kamal A
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Technol. Malaysia (UTM), Skudai
Abstract :
The speculation and invention of left-handed metamaterial (LH MTM) had sparked the interest of many researchers globally and was said to help increase the gain and directivity of the microstrip antenna. Therefore, the scope of this project was to design, simulate a LH MTM structure in order to proof the claims. The combination of the square rectangular split ring and the thin wire structure was used to obtain the negative value of permeability, mu and the negative permittivity, epsiv. From the simulation done, the gain of the antenna has been increased to 1 dB. This had proven that the focusing effect of the LH MTM really enhance the gain of the antenna.
Keywords :
metamaterials; microstrip antennas; permeability; permittivity; LH MTM structure; left-handed metamaterial; microstrip antenna; negative permeability; negative permittivity; square rectangular split ring structure; thin wire structure; Antennas and propagation; Frequency; Metamaterials; Microstrip antennas; Microstrip components; Patch antennas; Permeability; Permittivity; Turing machines; Wire; Left Handed Metamaterial; Metal Wire; Microstrip Antenna; Square Rectangular Split Ring;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Electromagnetics, 2007. APACE 2007. Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1434-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1435-2
DOI :
10.1109/APACE.2007.4603872
