TY - GEN
T1 - Miniaturized tunable metamaterial antenna design and modeling in the low UHF band
AU - Scarborough, Clinton P.
AU - Werner, Douglas Henry
AU - Wolfe, Douglas Edward
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Conventionally, efficient antennas operating over more than a few percent bandwidth require dimensions approaching a wavelength or more. In the low UHF band, such antennas will have sizes on the order of a meter. Artificial magnetic conducting (AMC) substrates have been shown to reduce the profile (height) of these antennas, but at the expense of operating bandwidth. Adding tunability has restored the flexibility of dynamically adjusting the communication channel over a wide range, but the lateral dimensions of the antenna are still quite large. Here we introduce a miniaturized low-profile antenna system based on a tunable AMC substrate beneath a tunable small antenna element. This system allows a channel bandwidth of about 0.5% with the flexibility of adjusting this channel from about 330 to over 400 MHz, all while using an antenna element that is still only a fraction of a wavelength in its largest dimension.
AB - Conventionally, efficient antennas operating over more than a few percent bandwidth require dimensions approaching a wavelength or more. In the low UHF band, such antennas will have sizes on the order of a meter. Artificial magnetic conducting (AMC) substrates have been shown to reduce the profile (height) of these antennas, but at the expense of operating bandwidth. Adding tunability has restored the flexibility of dynamically adjusting the communication channel over a wide range, but the lateral dimensions of the antenna are still quite large. Here we introduce a miniaturized low-profile antenna system based on a tunable AMC substrate beneath a tunable small antenna element. This system allows a channel bandwidth of about 0.5% with the flexibility of adjusting this channel from about 330 to over 400 MHz, all while using an antenna element that is still only a fraction of a wavelength in its largest dimension.
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U2 - 10.1109/APS.2013.6711446
DO - 10.1109/APS.2013.6711446
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894190657
SN - 9781467353175
T3 - IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)
SP - 1574
EP - 1575
BT - 2013 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 2013 - Proceedings
T2 - 2013 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, APSURSI 2013
Y2 - 7 July 2013 through 13 July 2013
ER -