Miniaturized Dual-band Antenna Array with Double-negative (DNG) Metamaterial for Wireless Applications

• Main Authors: Alqadami, Abdulrahman Shueai Mohsen, Mohd Faizal, Jamlos, Ping, Jack Soh, Sharul Kamal, Abdul Rahim, Vandenbosch, Guy A. E., Narbudowicz, Adam
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17193/1/Miniaturized%20dual-band%20antenna%20array%20with%20double-negative-fkm-2017.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/17193/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-0678-3

A miniaturized dual-band antenna array using a negative index metamaterial is presented for WiMAX, LTE, and WLAN applications. This left-handed metamaterial plane is located behind the antenna array, and its unit cell is a combination of split-ring resonator, square electric ring resonator, and rectangular electrical coupled resonator. This enables the achievement of a metamaterial structure exhibiting both negative permittivity and permeability, which results in antenna size miniaturization, efficiency, and gain enhancement. Moreover, the proposed metamaterial antenna has realized dual-band operating frequencies compared to a single frequency for normal antenna. The measured reflection coefficient (S11) shows a 50.25% bandwidth in the lower band (from 2.119 to 3.058 GHz) and 4.27% in the upper band (from 5.058 to 5.276 GHz). Radiation efficiency obtained in the lower and upper band are >95 and 80%, respectively.