Browsing by Subject "Antennas"
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Analysis of an off-broadside zero beam-squinting leaky-wave antenna using metamaterials
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)It is shown that zero beam-squinting can be achieved in both series fed antenna arrays and leaky-wave antennas by employing two parallel-connected metamaterial transmission lines with equal positive group delays, but with ...
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Antenna applications of negative-refractive-index transmission-line structures
(2007)A number of new antenna-related applications that have recently been developed at the University of Toronto based on the concept of negative-refractive-index transmission-line metamaterials are reviewed. These include ...
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Bandwidth and Directivity Enhancement of Loop Antenna by Nonperiodic Distribution of Mu-Negative Metamaterial Unit Cells
(2016)The theory, design, analysis, and verification of a wideband and unidirectional loop antenna loaded with mu-negative (MNG) metamaterial unit cells is presented. It is shown that by nonperiodic positioning of MNG unit cells ...
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Bandwidth and directivity enhancement of metamaterial-loaded loop antennas for microwave imaging applications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)Compact, wideband and unidirectional loop antennas are presented, that are based on a conventional planar loop antenna that is loaded in a mu-negative (MNG) fashion with series capacitors, enabling a mu-zero (MZR) resonance ...
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A compact and broadband NRI-TL metamaterial
(2009)A compact and broadband negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterial antenna is proposed,which consists of a conventional printed monopole loaded in a left-handed fashion. The metamaterial loading ...
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A compact and low-profile metamaterial ring antenna with vertical polarization
(2005)A compact (λ 0/11 footprint) and low-profile (λ 0/28 height) metamaterial ring antenna is proposed using two metamaterial unit cells. Each constituent unit cell consists of negative-refractive-index (NRI) microstrip ...
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A compact crossover using NRI-TL metamaterial lines
(2012)A compact NRI-TL metamaterial branch-line crossover is presented that has an area of λ/36 × λ/12, and is a factor of 81 times smaller than its analogous transmission-line counterpart. Circuit simulations reveal that it ...
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Compact EBG-Backed Planar Monopole for BAN Wearable Applications
(2017)This paper presents a planar monopole backed with a 2 × 1 array of electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures. The reflection phase of a single EBG unit cell has been studied and exploited toward efficient radiation of a ...
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A Compact Multiband Printed Dipole Antenna Loaded with Two Unequal Parallel NRI-TL Metamaterial Unit Cells
(2015)A negative-refractive-index transmission-line (NRI-TL) metamaterial-loaded dipole antenna is proposed, which has a fully printed configuration and exhibits multiband performance. The antenna consists of a conventional ...
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Compact Wideband Loop Antenna Partially Loaded With Mu-Negative Metamaterial Unit Cells for Directivity Enhancement
(2016)A wideband and unidirectional loop antenna partially loaded with mu-negative (MNG) metamaterial unit cells is presented. To reduce the electrical size of the antenna, its first resonance is formed by capacitively loading ...
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Compact, wideband and multiband antennas based on metamaterial concepts
(2010)In this review article, various antenna designs that are based on metamaterial concepts are presented which have been developed at the University of Toronto. Specifically, several antennas that are based on the zero-index ...
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Computer-based antenna education at the Technological educational institute of crete
(University of Cyprus, 2007)In the past most electronic engineering students tended to have repulsion against subjects related to microwaves, electromagnetics and antennas, especially due to their abstract, theoretically demanding, and complex ...
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Conformai wearable monopole antenna backed by a compact EBG structure for body area networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)A compact planar monopole antenna backed by an electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structure is presented. The antenna is conformal to the human body and is intended for wearable applications in wireless body area networks. It ...
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A Directivity-Band-Dependent Triple-Band and Wideband Dual-Polarized Monopole Antenna Loaded with a Via-Free CRLH Unit Cell
(2015)A printed triple-band and wideband dual-polarized meander-line monopole antenna with a single CRLH metamaterial loading is presented. The metamaterial loading improves the impedance matching and causes the proposed antenna ...
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Dual-band dual-polarized antenna for medical applications
(2013)The design of a coplanar waveguide fed antenna with dual polarization and dual-band operation is presented. The antenna operates in the Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands. The design presented has linear ...
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Gain Enhancement of Wideband Metamaterial-Loaded Loop Antenna with Tightly Coupled Arc-Shaped Directors
(2017)A wideband and unidirectional loop antenna with enhanced and stable gain is presented. To reduce the size of the antenna, the loop is loaded with three mu-negative (MNG) metamaterial unit-cells. The proposed unit-cells ...
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Harmonic suppression for planar ultrawideband bandpass filters employing broadside-coupled microstrip patches
(2012)The design of a planar bandpass filter with ultra-wideband behavior and suppressed second harmonic is presented. The proposed filter utilizes broadside coupling between elliptical microstrip patches at the top and bottom ...
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An investigation of printed Franklin antennas at X-band using artificial (metamaterial) phase-shifting lines
(2008)Non-radiating artificial phase-shifting lines are constructed using conventional positive-refractive-index (PRI) transmission lines (TL) and the recently developed negative-refractive-index (NRI) transmission lines. The ...
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A multi-band NRI-TL metamaterial-loaded bow-tie antenna
(2011)A compact, fully-printed and low-profile bow-tie antenna is proposed, which exhibits multi-band performance by loading a reference bow-tie antenna with series capacitive gaps and shunt inductive strips, to form an asymmetric ...
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A NRI-TL metamaterial-loaded bow-tie antenna
(2011)A fully-printed and low-profile bow-tie antenna is proposed, which exhibits multi-band performance by loading a bow-tie antenna with series capacitive gaps and shunt inductive strips, to form an asymmetric two unit-cell ...