Affiliation:
1. Air Force Engineering University
Abstract
A single-negative electric waveguided metamaterial (WG-MTM) is proposed using folded complementary split single ring resonator (FCSSRR) to reduce mutual coupling in antenna arrays for MIMO applications. The WG-MTM is investigated numerically, which proved to exhibit electric resonance and band-gap property. Two antenna arrays have been designed, fabricated and measured. By inserting the electric negative metamaterial, a mutual coupling reduction of 9.2dB has been achieved with an edge-to-edge distance less than 0.17 (where is the operating wavelength). Moreover, the metamaterial loaded antenna has better far-field radiation patterns compared with the reference antenna. Thus, this novel structure not only has good coupling reduction ability, but also can optimize the performances of the antennas.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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