Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling
A wideband, high gain circularly polarized (CP) metasurface (MTS) based slot antenna is presented. The designed nonuniform slots provide wider bandgap regions and extra degree of freedom in tuning to obtain wider impedance bandwidth through improved mode coupling for fixed optimum feed location alon...
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| description | A wideband, high gain circularly polarized (CP) metasurface (MTS) based slot antenna is presented. The designed nonuniform slots provide wider bandgap regions and extra degree of freedom in tuning to obtain wider impedance bandwidth through improved mode coupling for fixed optimum feed location along with improved 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth and gain. The extra radiation edges provided by nonuniform slots within the unit cell help in improving mode coupling thus resulting in increased performance of the designed antenna. Improved mode coupling in case of the proposed antenna is explained and verified using characteristic mode analysis (CMA). The proposed antenna with a small size of 0.8 x 0.8 x <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.079~\lambda _{0}^{3}~(\lambda _{0}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 6 GHz) is designed. Based on the proposed analysis, an antenna having wide impedance bandwidth of 48.74% (5.74-9.44 GHz), and a 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of 19.92% (6.19-7.56 GHz) with a peak gain of 9.35 dBi is designed. In addition, a 2 x 2 array of proposed MTS is designed and fabricated. The MTS array has a peak gain of 14.45dBi with a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 61.75% and impedance bandwidth of 71.71%. The proposed antennas find good use in WiMAX, C-band, and radars applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-24c2edea937b476ea5b3e673ca078bd72024-11-22T00:02:24ZengIEEEIEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation2637-64312024-01-01561432143910.1109/OJAP.2024.336138110418461Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode CouplingKomal Iqbal0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4071-2339Qasim Umar Khan1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3665-0211Zubair Ahmed2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-4610Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanA wideband, high gain circularly polarized (CP) metasurface (MTS) based slot antenna is presented. The designed nonuniform slots provide wider bandgap regions and extra degree of freedom in tuning to obtain wider impedance bandwidth through improved mode coupling for fixed optimum feed location along with improved 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth and gain. The extra radiation edges provided by nonuniform slots within the unit cell help in improving mode coupling thus resulting in increased performance of the designed antenna. Improved mode coupling in case of the proposed antenna is explained and verified using characteristic mode analysis (CMA). The proposed antenna with a small size of 0.8 x 0.8 x <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.079~\lambda _{0}^{3}~(\lambda _{0}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 6 GHz) is designed. Based on the proposed analysis, an antenna having wide impedance bandwidth of 48.74% (5.74-9.44 GHz), and a 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of 19.92% (6.19-7.56 GHz) with a peak gain of 9.35 dBi is designed. In addition, a 2 x 2 array of proposed MTS is designed and fabricated. The MTS array has a peak gain of 14.45dBi with a 3-dB AR bandwidth of 61.75% and impedance bandwidth of 71.71%. The proposed antennas find good use in WiMAX, C-band, and radars applications.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10418461/Non-uniform metasurafacecircular polarizationhigh gainwideband antenna |
| spellingShingle | Komal Iqbal Qasim Umar Khan Zubair Ahmed Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation Non-uniform metasuraface circular polarization high gain wideband antenna |
| title | Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling |
| title_full | Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling |
| title_fullStr | Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling |
| title_short | Compact High Gain Wideband Circularly Polarized Non-Uniform Metasurface Antenna Through Improved Mode Coupling |
| title_sort | compact high gain wideband circularly polarized non uniform metasurface antenna through improved mode coupling |
| topic | Non-uniform metasuraface circular polarization high gain wideband antenna |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10418461/ |
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