A modified rhombus shaped flexible wideband double negative (DNG) metamaterial for S, C, X, and Ku band applications

Deepa Negi; Rajesh Khanna; Jaswinder Kaur

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A modified rhombus shaped flexible wideband double negative (DNG) metamaterial for S, C, X, and Ku band applications

Deepa Negi , Rajesh Khanna and Jaswinder Kaur

Published/Copyright: July 27, 2020

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Abstract

In this paper a wideband, flexible, and novel structured double negative (DNG) metamaterial is designed for S, C, X, and Ku microwave applications. The 12 mm × 12 mm sized metamaterial is fabricated on a flexible FR4 substrate with thickness 0.25 mm. The metamaterial shows a total wide DNG region of 8.2 GHz (3.8–4.3 GHz and 6.8–14.5 GHz). The transmission coefficient of the unit cell has a total band gap bandwidth of 8.3 GHz from frequency range 2 to 16 GHz. The designed metamaterial also exhibits an extra-large and continuous negative refractive index (NRI) bandwidth of 13 GHz (2–15 GHz). The stop band regions along with DNG and NRI regions individually cover S, C, X, and Ku microwave regions. The complete analysis is done using CST microwave studio. The simulated and measured transmission coefficient curves of the proposed metamaterial are in good agreement. The structure is simple, cost effective, flexible, light weight, and wideband covering S, C, X, and Ku microwave spectra.

Keywords: double negative (DNG) characteristics; flexible metamaterial; modified rhombus structure; S, C, X and Ku microwave applications; wideband negative refractive index (NRI) region

Corresponding author: Deepa Negi, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India, E-mail: negideepa21@gmail.com

Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2019-12-12

Accepted: 2020-06-04

Published Online: 2020-07-27

Published in Print: 2020-09-25

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double negative (DNG) characteristics; flexible metamaterial; modified rhombus structure; S, C, X and Ku microwave applications; wideband negative refractive index (NRI) region