Design and development of metamaterial bandpass filter for WLAN applications using circular split ring resonator

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, a metamaterial bandpass filter using Split Ring Resonators (SRR) is designed, analyzed, and developed for WLAN applications at 2.4 GHz frequency band. Here, metamaterial bandpass filters with and without Defected Ground Structure (DGS) are designed, analyzed and compared. The filter structure shows a considerable size reduction with 50% fractional bandwidth, quality factor of 2 and wide bandwidth. The simulation results of the proposed filters offered good insertion loss and return loss response. The filters have been modeled, fabricated and their performance has been evaluated using the Method Of Moment (MOM) based electromagnetic simulator IE3D. The dimensions of the proposed filter is 20 × 9 × 1.6 mm which is considerably reduced. The simulated and measured results projected that the proposed metamaterial filters are well suited for WLAN applications.