Open AccessWideband compact directive metasurface enabled pair of slot antennas
Author(s) -
Majumder B.,
Kandasamy K.,
Mukherjee J.,
Ray K.P.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1350-911X
pISSN - 0013-5194
DOI - 10.1049/el.2015.1998
Subject(s) - wideband , directivity , bandwidth (computing) , broadside , optics , slot antenna , physics , acoustics , antenna (radio) , materials science , directional antenna , telecommunications , computer science
A simple novel compact wideband directive metasurface (MS) enabled antenna is proposed. Two same dimensions of edge fed slots are used to excite the MS layer which is made of a periodic arrangement of a rectangular loop‐based unit cell. An optimised resonant slot fed at the edge with a simple micro‐strip line together with the epsilon very large MS layer exhibits wideband behaviour. The antenna yields a bandwidth from 5.89 to 6.6 GHz for a voltage standing wave ratio < 2 (12%) compared with a measured fractional bandwidth of 14%. A maximum broadside directivity of 10.5 dBi has been achieved. Simulated efficiency is more than 87%. The measurements characteristics of this antenna are in agreement with simulated results.