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A Low-Profile 3-D Printable Metastructure for Performance Improvement of Aperture Antennas

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In order to increase the radiation performance of aperture-type antennas, this paper demonstrates a low-profile, planar, single-layer, three-dimensional (3-D) printable metastructure. The proposed hybridized metastructure is highly transparent as it is made out of novel hybrid meta-atoms having transmission coefficient magnitudes greater than -0.72 dB and fully complies with the near-field phase transformation principle. The hybridized design approach makes the metastructure planar, low-profile, light in weight, and compatible with additive printing technology. For the proof-of-concept, such metastructure is developed and numerically verified to enhance the radiation performance of a resonant cavity antenna (RCA). With the proposed metastructure, the peak directivity of the RCA is improved by 8.6 dBi (from 11.4 dBi to 20 dBi) at the operating frequency of 12.4 GHz. The aperture efficiency and 3-dB directivity bandwidth of the RCA with the metastructure are 41.46% and 16.5%, respectively. Using readily accessible thermoplastics or polymers and copper with cost-effective fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3-D printing technology, the proposed planar hybridized metastructure can be prototyped commercially.

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Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-024-68583-5
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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:
Scientific Reports no. 14,
ISSN: 2045-2322
Language:
English
Publication year:
2024
Bibliographic description:
Ali M. Y., Lalbakhsh A., Kozieł S., Gołuński Ł., Ahmed F., Asadnia M.: A Low-Profile 3-D Printable Metastructure for Performance Improvement of Aperture Antennas// Scientific Reports -Vol. 14, (2024), s.1-11
DOI:
Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-024-68583-5
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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