Negative refractive index material-inspired 90-deg electrically tilted ultra wideband resonator

Abstract. A negative refractive index material loaded patch antenna is proposed for ultra wideband applications. The wideband operation has been achieved by creating a defected ground plane with a CNC shaped split ring resonator. The defected ground plane CNC resonator also exhibits a 90-deg electrical tilt. Two additional slots are engineered in the patch antenna for further bandwidth enhancement. A −10  dB bandwidth with an order of 57.89% has been achieved with a peak gain of 5.37 dBi at a 5.5 GHz resonant frequency. Measured results demonstrate good agreement with simulated results.

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