We have developed a compact antenna for wireless applications with a new shape and special attribute. It is a dual‐band antenna with a second harmonic characteristic. The antenna has a special shape of the dielectric resonator with metamaterial meandered composite right/left‐hand (CRLH) structure. The Microstrip ring antenna is the right‐hand part. We used the Microstrip meandered line via inductance for the unit cells to achieve a circular polarization and to change the current distribution at the surface of the antenna. We added a parasitic ring to the antenna to achieve the second harmonic resonance. We have connected three unit cells at the 120° angle. This special shape provides the circular polarization and compact size. The antenna has quad‐band at the first harmonic, and the resonances occurred at 2.25 and 2.8 GHz. The second harmonics happened at 4.5 and 5.6 GHz.
The goal of the present work is to present a slot antenna for wireless application based on a stack layer and composite right‐hand/left‐hand technique to achieve a multiband characteristic together with miniaturization and gain enhancement. This antenna covers 1.825 to 1.975 GHz for global system for mobile communications 1800, 2.9 to 4.3 GHz for long‐term evolution (LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability in Microwave Access, and 5.2 to 5.8 GHz for Wi‐Fi networks with the return loss of less than −6 dB (VSWR<3). We used a slit ring resonator structure with four vias and strip as the left‐hand circuit. We have also utilized a disk at the center of the top layer to improve the bandwidth and matching. We present the equivalent RLC circuit model for the final antenna which can help us realize the role of capacitance and inductances based on parametric studies. Both layers are fabricated over the FR4 substrate, and experimental results confirm the simulation results obtained by the HFSS. Moreover, the stack layer provides higher directivity and gain in comparison with the conventional slot antenna.
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