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Artificial magnetic conductor using split ring resonators and its applications to antennas
Author(s) -
Oh SoonSoo,
Shafai Lotfollah
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.21341
Subject(s) - conductor , ground plane , antenna (radio) , microwave , split ring resonator , resonator , dielectric resonator antenna , dielectric , perfect conductor , electrical conductor , electrical engineering , materials science , engineering , acoustics , optics , physics , telecommunications , composite material , scattering
An artificial magnetic conductor using the split‐ring resonators (SRRs) printed on conductor‐backed dielectric substrate is presented. The simulation and measurement verify that the magnetic conductor is successfully accomplished around the resonant frequency. As an antenna application, the characteristics of a horizontal wire antenna placed above the SRR array, as well as a conducting ground plane and a grounded dielectric slab, are investigated and compared. A maximum gain of 4.34 dBi is obtained for the wire antenna above the SRR array. The results confirm that the split resonators can successfully be used to replace the antenna ground plane in order to improve their performance. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 48: 329–334, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21341