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12, 2013
TABLE I
DIMENSIONS OF THE PROPOSED ANTENNA
Fig. 5. performances comparison between Antennas 1 and 2. Fig. 8. Measured and simulated of Antenna 1.
the impedance matching of the lower band around 2.5 GHz good agreement. The discrepancy between the simulations and
deteriorates. measurements could be attributed to the factors as the effect of
connector, the manufacturing tolerance, and the measurement
environment. Meanwhile, the simulated radiation efficiencies
III. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
at 2.5/5.5/3.5 GHz of Antenna 1 are 98.1%, 99%, and 99.5%,
According to the design dimension given above, the two and those of Antenna 2 are 95.8%, 99.5%, and 99.3%.
kinds of metamaterial antennas have been fabricated and The measured and simulated E-plane and H-plane radiation
measured as shown in Figs. 7–10. The of the fabricated patterns of the proposed antennas at three resonant frequen-
antennas were measured by using a network analyzer Agilent cies of 2.5, 3.5, and 5.5 GHz are shown in Figs. 11 and 12. It
8719ES. The measured working bandwidths of Antenna 1 can be seen that the measured results are in good agreement
are 60 MHz (2.49 2.55 GHz), 680 MHz (3.0 3.68 GHz) with simulated results. From the results above, it is observed
and 1.01 GHz (5.03 6.04 GHz) shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 that both antennas have stable omnidirectional radiation pattern
shows the measured working bandwidths of Antenna 2 are in H-plane and figure-8-shape radiation pattern in the E-plane.
40 MHz (2.49 2.53 GHz), 3.12 GHz (2.95 6.07 GHz). Meanwhile, for both antennas, the radiation patterns of each res-
The simulated and measured of the two antennas show a onant frequency show great similarity, which demonstrates that
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Fig. 11. Measured (solid line) and simulated (dotted line) radiation patterns of
Fig. 12. Measured (solid line) and simulated (dotted line) radiation patterns for
Antenna 1 at (a) 2.5, (b) 3.5, and (c) 5.5 GHz.
Antenna 2 at (a) 2.5, (b) 3.5, and (c) 5.5 GHz.