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In this paper, a novel negative refractive index metamaterial (NIM) is developed and characterized. The proposed metamaterial exhibits negative effective permittivity (εeffe) and negative effective permeability (µeffe) at millimeter wave frequency of 28GHz. This attractive feature is utilized to enhance the gain of a microstrip patch antenna (MPA). Two thin layers of 5 5 subwavelength unit cell array of NIM are placed above a single MPA to enhance the gain of the antenna. Each unit cell has an area of 3.4 3.4 mm2. A gain increase of 7.9dBi has been observed when using the proposed NIM as a superstrate. Furthermore, the NIM array is placed over a 2 2 array of MPAs with four ports to demonstrate versatility of the metamaterial. The total size of the 2 2 antenna array system with N-MTM is about 61.1 34 16mm3 (5.71λ 3.18λ 1.5λ, where λ is the free-space wavelength at 28 GHz). The measurement result indicate that the maximum gain of the antenna array is 13.5dBi. A gain enhancement of 7.55 dB in E-Plane and 7.25 dB in H-Plane at the resonant frequency of 28 GHz is obtained. The proposed antenna structure is suitable for 5G millimeter wave communications, in particular, for possible implementation in future millimeter wave access points and cellular base stations.
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Rao Aziz
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-024-67234-z
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Scientific Reports
no. 14,
ISSN: 2045-2322 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2024
- Bibliographic description:
- Aziz R., Kozieł S., Pietrenko-Dąbrowska A.: Millimeter Wave Negative Refractive Index Metamaterial Antenna Array// Scientific Reports -Vol. 14, (2024), s.1-12
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-024-67234-z
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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