DESIGN OF A COMPACT ULTRAWIDEBAND META- MATERIAL ANTENNA BASED ON THE MODIFIED SPLIT-RING RESONATOR AND CAPACITIVELY LOADED STRIPS UNIT CELL

A new compact ultrawideband (UWB) patch antenna based on the resonance mechanism of a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) is proposed. The radiating element of the antenna is made from three left-handed (LH) metamaterial (MTM) unit cells placed along one axis, where each unit cell combines a modifled split-ring resonator (SRR) structure with capacitively loaded strips (CLS). An analysis of the eigenfrequencies of these unit cells yields one- and two-dimensional dispersion diagrams, which correspond to a one-unit cell antenna and the three unit cell antenna, respectively. A trident feed and a slotted-partial ground plane are used to match the right- and left-handed (RH and LH) modes of the antenna, respectively. In addition, an analysis of the surface current distribution of the antenna shows that slots on the metallic area reduce the Q-factor. This reduction in the Q-factor results in a wide bandwidth of 189% at 3.7GHz, which spans the UWB frequency range between 2.9{ 9.9GHz. The total footprint of the antenna at the lowest frequency is 0:2‚0£0:2‚0£0:015‚0, where ‚0 is the free space wavelength. The gain of the antenna ranges between i1 to 5dB throughout the frequency band.

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