A microstrip patch antenna with metamaterial and EBG structures

Author

Kumar, Ajit ; Dinesh Kumar, V. ; Abegaonkar, Mahesh P. ; Koul, S.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng, Jaypee Inst. of Inf. Technol., Noida, India

fYear

2013

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

32

Abstract

We numerically investigate the performance of rectangular patch antenna combined with fishnet metamaterial as superstrate for enhanced directionality. The gain of the antenna is improved further by suppressing surface wave in the substrate by using two different methods (1) partial removal of substrate around the patch and (2) mushroom type electromagnetic (EBG) structure. In either case overall gain and directionality of the antenna are greatly improved, however in case of latter the beamwidth of emission is slightly larger and side lobes are smaller as compared to former. To best of our knowledge this is the first design of patch antenna employing both EBG and novel fishnet metamaterial for enhanced performance.

Keywords

energy gap; metamaterial antennas; microstrip antennas; numerical analysis; EBG structures; antenna directionality; emission beamwidth; fishnet metamaterial; metamaterial; microstrip patch antenna; mushroom type electromagnetic structure; patch type electromagnetic structure; rectangular patch antenna; substrate partial removal; surface wave suppression; Antenna radiation patterns; Gain; Metamaterials; Patch antennas; Periodic structures; Substrates; Surface waves; EBG; Metamaterial; Surface wave; bandgap; directionality; gain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Noida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1605-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCom.2013.6719750

Filename

6719750