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Wideband microstrip patch antenna using ENZ metamaterials
Author(s) -
Jafargholi Amir,
Akbarzadeh Seyed Abbas,
Mazaheri Mohamad Hossein
Publication year - 2014
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.28533
Subject(s) - microstrip antenna , patch antenna , metamaterial , metamaterial antenna , microwave , wideband , bandwidth (computing) , materials science , microstrip , acoustics , optics , antenna (radio) , optoelectronics , electronic engineering , physics , engineering , coaxial antenna , electrical engineering , telecommunications
ABSTRACT In this letter, the use of epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) to load a microstrip patch antenna has been investigated. It is known that ENZ material may help improving the transmission through a boundary condition and that the scattering parameters may be completely independent of such boundary properties. This idea has been demonstrated to significantly increase the bandwidth of a rectangular microstrip patch antenna. To realize the ENZ medium, a periodic wire media has been designed, simulated, fabricated and tested. Simulation results show good agreement with measurements. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 56:2080–2084, 2014