Abstract
A high-gain rectangular microstrip patch antenna which is covered by a single layer metamaterial (MTM) superstrate with the near zero refractive index is proposed. The refraction of the metamaterial at frequency 3.51GHz–3.57GHz is very close to zero. The metamaterial with the near zero refractive index is placed 42mm above an ordinary rectangular microstrip patch antenna. The effectively zero refractive index behavior of metamaterial superstrate can gather the wave emitted from the microstrip patch antenna and collimate it toward the normal direction of the antenna. The finite element method (FEM) and the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method are used to study the characteristics of this antenna. The results of the two methods indicate that the realized gain of the proposed antenna is increased by more than 6dB, and the antenna has a flatness high gain in the predicted frequency band, where the proposed MTM is designed to have a near zero index of refraction. Therefore, the high-gain antenna is effectively enhanced based on the near-zero-refractive-index metamaterial.
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