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Design of Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna on Dielectric and Magnetic Metamaterial Composite Substrate
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  • Mousa Al-Omari ,
  • Hussein Attia ,
  • Khurram Karim Qureshi ,
  • Sharif Iqbal Sheikh
Mousa Al-Omari
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Hussein Attia
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)

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Khurram Karim Qureshi
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Sharif Iqbal Sheikh
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Abstract

Reconfigurable planar antennas are essential in multifunctional wireless communication devices. This paper presents the design of a frequency reconfigurable patch antenna printed on a composite substrate made of a dielectric and a magnetic metamaterial (MMM). The MMM comprises magnetized ferrite slabs with embedded split-ring resonators (SRR). The constructive coupling between the resonances of the magnetized ferrites and SRR is optimized to achieve promising reconfigurable properties. The proposed frequency reconfigurable antenna demonstrates a 158% increase in the frequency tuning range. Furthermore, the simulated results are experimentally verified, and the composite substrate shows slight effects on the antenna radiation characteristics.
Apr 2023Published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters volume 22 issue 4 on pages 943-947. 10.1109/LAWP.2022.3230827