A metamaterial absorber based high gain directional dipole antenna

作者:Pushpakaran Sarin Valiyaveettil*; Purushothama Jayakrishnan M; Mani Manoj; Chandroth Aanandan; Pezholil Mohanan; Kesavath Vasudevan
来源:International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 2018, 10(4): 430-436.
DOI:10.1017/S1759078718000454

摘要

A novel idea for generating directional electromagnetic beam using a metamaterial absorber for enhancing radiation from a microwave antenna in the S-band is presented herewith. The metamaterial structure constitutes the well-known stacked dogbone doublet working in the absorption mode. The reflection property of the dogbone metamaterial absorber, for the non-propagating reactive near-field, is utilized for achieving highly enhanced and directional radiation characteristics. The metamaterial absorber converts the high-spatial reactive spectrum in the near-field into propagating low-spatial spectrum resulting in enhanced radiation efficiency and gain. The gain of a printed standard half-wave dipole is enhanced to 10 dBi from 2.3 dBi with highly directional radiation characteristics at resonance.

  • 出版日期2018-5