Simulation of Fractal Antenna Properties Composed of Metamaterials (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

Metamaterials or left-handed materials are man-made structures. They have properties like negative refractive index that is not found in natural materials. Metamaterials that is designed by placing electromagnetic resonators like split ring resonators (SRRs) in a periodic array is among the most popular designs. Split ring resonators when placed next to antennas as a cover, it will improve the gain of the antenna. Split ring resonator when slotted on patches, it causes a size reduction. Microstrip patch antennas have become one of the most popular antennas because they have many advantages such as low-profile, light weight, and low cost of fabrication. Designing of microstrip patches are utilized from fractal geometry. Fractal shapes exhibit antennas more improved in its parameters. In this thesis, six classical and four fractal unit cell metamaterials are designed and their parameters are calculated using retrieval method by HFSSV13 code for electromagnetic structure simulation. Permittivity, permeability, and negative refractive index are calculated. These shapes show left-handed behavior in their resonance frequencies. The study of effect of metamaterial unit cells on antenna parameters lies in two categories, gain enhancement and size reduction. Meta-cover of classical and fractal unit cells is placed above Quadruple Koch, Peano, and Snowflake antennas. Good results of gain enhancement and side lobe reduction are obtained. Enhancement of some models of fractal meta-cover equals 5 dB. Split ring resonator and Hilbert ring are slotted on antenna patch and ground plane of the antenna respectively. Two models are proposed, First iteration of Peano and Snowflake antennas. A good result of size reduction is obtained. The reduction in Peano antenna equals to 41%. Quadruple Koch and Peano antennas are studied experimentally. These models are fabricated and measured using vector network analyzer. Good agreement of measured and calculated results is obtained. In the future work more than two layers will be investigated with different angles relative to the antenna plane.

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