A metamaterial absorber based high gain directional dipole antenna

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 430-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarin Valiyaveettil Pushpakaran ◽  
Jayakrishnan M. Purushothama ◽  
Manoj Mani ◽  
Aanandan Chandroth ◽  
Mohanan Pezholil ◽  
...  

AbstractA novel idea for generating directional electromagnetic beam using a metamaterial absorber for enhancing radiation from a microwave antenna in the S-band is presented herewith. The metamaterial structure constitutes the well-known stacked dogbone doublet working in the absorption mode. The reflection property of the dogbone metamaterial absorber, for the non-propagating reactive near-field, is utilized for achieving highly enhanced and directional radiation characteristics. The metamaterial absorber converts the high-spatial reactive spectrum in the near-field into propagating low-spatial spectrum resulting in enhanced radiation efficiency and gain. The gain of a printed standard half-wave dipole is enhanced to 10 dBi from 2.3 dBi with highly directional radiation characteristics at resonance.

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
V. P. Sarin ◽  
M. P. Jayakrishnan ◽  
C. K. Aanandan ◽  
P. Mohanan ◽  
K. Vasudevan

The experimental and simulation studies of the radiation performance enhancement of a dipole antenna using metal strip grating are presented in this paper. The subwavelength imaging configuration of the metal strip grating is utilized for enhancing the radiation performance of a dipole antenna working in the S-band. The resultant design shows a gain of 9 dBi and front to back ratio of the design is found to be -23 dB at resonance. The coupling between electric and magnetic resonances provides the necessary impedance matching performance when the antenna is brought in the vicinity of the grating.


Author(s):  
Е.А. Ищенко ◽  
Ю.Г. Пастернак ◽  
В.А. Пендюрин ◽  
С.М. Фёдоров

Для обеспечения радиосвязи применяются различные конструкции антенн, которые могут обладать всенаправленными или узконаправленными диаграммами направленности, при этом наибольшей защитой канала связи от помех и от перехвата обладают направленные антенны. Но их недостатком является то, что для обеспечения связи во всех направлениях требуется или установка группы антенн, или использование поворотных платформ, которые ухудшают показатели надежности системы, а также усложняют ее. Поэтому, как правило, для обеспечения связи применяют всенаправленные антенны, которые имеют диаграмму направленности в виде тороида. Недостаткaми таких антенн являются малый коэффициент направленного действия, а также прием большого числа шумов, что усложняет последующую обработку сигналов. Предлагается конструкция дипольной антенны, помещенной в активный метаматериал, с возможностью формирования луча путем коммутации слоев конструкции, что формирует динамически перестраиваемые рефлекторы. Получаемые в процессе функционирования системы диаграммы направленности обладают высокими значениями КНД, а также высокой помехозащищённостью и защитой от перехвата ввиду направленных свойств. Была получена конструкция антенны, помещенная в кубическую структуру активного метаматериала, с возможностью коммутации проводников с использованием pin-диодов или МЭМС-коммутаторов, что позволяет обеспечить быстрое переключение режимов работы устройства, формирование направленного луча и обеспечение помехозащищенной и защищенной от перехвата связи To ensure radio communication, various antenna designs are used, which can have omnidirectional or narrowly directional radiation patterns, while directional antennas have the greatest protection of the communication channel from interference and interception. However, their disadvantage is that to ensure communication in all directions, either the installation of a group of antennas or the use of turntables are required, which degrade the reliability of the system, as well as complicate it. Therefore, as a rule, to provide communication, omnidirectional antennas are used, which have a radiation pattern in the form of a toroid. The disadvantage of such antennas is, as a rule, a small directional coefficient, as well as the reception of a large number of noises, which complicates the subsequent signal processing. In this work, we propose a design of a dipole antenna placed in an active metamaterial with the possibility of forming a beam by switching the layers of the structure, which forms dynamically tunable reflectors. Directional patterns obtained in the course of system operation have high directivity values, as well as high noise immunity and protection against interception due to directional properties. As a result of the study, we obtained an antenna design, placed in a cubic structure of an active metamaterial with the possibility of switching conductors using pin diodes or MEMS switches, which allows for fast switching of device operating modes, formation of a directed beam and providing noise-immune and interception-proof communication


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Zhai ◽  
Ding Xu ◽  
Yan Zhang

This paper presents a lightweight, cost-efficient, wideband, and high-gain 3D printed parabolic reflector antenna in the Ka-band. A 10 λ reflector is printed with polylactic acid- (PLA-) based material that is a biodegradable type of plastic, preferred in 3D printing. The reflecting surface is made up of multiple stacked layers of copper tape, thick enough to function as a reflecting surface (which is found 4 mm). A conical horn is used for the incident field. A center-fed method has been used to converge the energy in the broadside direction. The proposed antenna results measured a gain of 27.8 dBi, a side lobe level (SLL) of −22 dB, and a maximum of 61.2% aperture efficiency (at 30 GHz). A near-field analysis in terms of amplitude and phase has also been presented which authenticates the accurate spherical to planar wavefront transformation in the scattered field.


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