Title :
Left handed metamaterial design for microstrip antenna application
Author :
Majid, Huda A. ; Rahim, Mohamad Kamal A ; Masri, Thelaha
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai
Abstract :
This paper describes the design and simulation of the left-handed metamaterial structure incorporated with a single microstrip patch antenna. The combination of the modified square rectangular split ring (SRR) and the capacitance loaded strip (CLS) was used to obtain the negative value of permeability, mur and the negative permittivity, epsivr. From the simulation done, the gain of the antenna has been increased up to 4 dB. This had proven that the LH MTM can enhance the gain of the antenna.
Keywords :
cavity resonators; metamaterials; microstrip antennas; permeability; permittivity; antenna gain; capacitance loaded strip; left handed metamaterial design; microstrip antenna application; modified square rectangular split ring resonator; negative permittivity; permeability; single microstrip patch antenna; Capacitance; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Directive antennas; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Microstrip antennas; Microwave antennas; Permeability; Permittivity; Left-Handed Metamaterial; Microstrip Antenna; negative permeability; negative permittivity;
Conference_Titel :
RF and Microwave Conference, 2008. RFM 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2866-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2867-0
DOI :
10.1109/RFM.2008.4897426
