Radiation performance enhancement of an ultra wide band antenna using metamaterial band-pass filter

Abstract

In this paper, a metamaterial structure based on frequency selective surface (FSS) cell is proposed to achieve an isotropic band-pass filtering response. This filter consists of a planar layer formed by a 3×3 metamaterials cell array with transmittive filtering behavior at 3.5 GHz. This design with 45×45 mm dimension is then integrated in close proximity at distance of 10 mm with an ultra wide band (UWB) antenna to enhance it' s performances around a 3.5 GHz operating frequency. Simulation results ensure that filter geometry provides the advantage of the angular stability up to to 45? and also polarization modes independency (transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM)). In addition, enhancement in antenna radiation pattern characteristics is enhanced especially when the FSS filter layer is integrated at a very close distance from the radiator. Moreover, antenna gain was improved to 3.22 dBi, adaptation of antenna port (S11) was increased to-53.26 dB and antenna bandwidth reduction to 1.7 GHz is also detected. All these performances make the proposed design as a good choice used to shield signals in UWB wireless applications especially for connected object in 5G.