Bandwidth Enhancement of an Array Antenna using Slotted Artificial Magnetic Conductors
An artificial magnetic conductor (AMC)-integrated array antenna operating at 9.41 GHz is proposed in this work. The AMC plane consists of an array of 9 × 12 rectangular elements slotted using four circular slots. The rectangular circular-slotted AMC unit cell acts as a metamaterial with high permeab...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2017
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| Online Access: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16637/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16637/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16637/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16637/1/Bandwidth%20enhancement%20of%20an%20array%20antenna%20using%20slotted%20artificial%20magnetic%20conductors.pdf |
| Summary: | An artificial magnetic conductor (AMC)-integrated array antenna operating at 9.41 GHz is proposed in this work. The AMC plane consists of an array of 9 × 12 rectangular elements slotted using four circular slots. The rectangular circular-slotted AMC unit cell acts as a metamaterial with high permeability of 10.05 and non-unity permittivity of 1.52, respectively. The integration of the AMC plane into a reference array antenna operating at 9.41 GHz increases the impedance bandwidth by 76%, from 1.12 to 1.98 GHz. Besides that, the efficiency is also enhanced from 95.91 to 96.31%. Both reference and proposed antenna show a satisfactory agreement in terms of simulated and measured reflection coefficients and radiation patterns. |
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