4.6 Article

Low-Profile Broadband Metasurface Antenna Under Multimode Resonance

Journal

IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS
Volume 20, Issue 9, Pages 1696-1700

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2021.3094302

Keywords

Metasurfaces; Microstrip antennas; Broadband antennas; Microstrip; Bandwidth; Antenna measurements; Slot antennas; Broadband; characteristic modes analysis (CMA); metasurface antenna; multimodes resonance

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61871079, 61801097, 62031010, 61721001]
  2. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [ZYGX2019Z009]

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This research presents a broadband antenna design based on a nonperiodic metasurface, which achieves wide bandwidth by analyzing the characteristic modes of the metasurface and the slot, finding three desired modes, and combining them to achieve wideband performance. The proposed metasurface antenna demonstrates a wide impedance bandwidth above 79% and a wide 3 dB realized gain bandwidth of 77%, confirmed through simulation, fabrication, and testing.
A broadband metasurface antenna is proposed in this letter. The antenna is based on a nonperiodic metasurface. The modal behavior of the metasurface and the slot is analyzed using characteristic modes analysis (CMA). Three desired modes of the metasurface are found. Furthermore, the slot acts not only as a feeding structure but also as a metasurface-loaded antenna. By combining the three modes of the metasurface and the modes of the slot, the wide bandwidth is achieved under multimode resonance. To verify the design, the proposed metasurface antenna is simulated, fabricated, and tested. The results show that the proposed metasurface antenna achieves a wide impedance bandwidth above 79% and a wide 3 dB realized gain bandwidth of 77%.

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