{"title":"Gain enhancement of antipodal tapered slot antenna using zero-index metamaterial","authors":"Mei Sun, Zhi Ning Chen, X. Qing","doi":"10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333152","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A zero-index metamaterial (ZIM) structure is proposed for the gain enhancement of a tapered slot antenna. An antipodal tapered slot antenna (ATSA) prototype loaded with the proposed ZIM cells exhibits a gain enhancement of up to 6 dB in the frequency band of 7-13.5 GHz.","PeriodicalId":178493,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation","volume":"3 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333152","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 10
Abstract
A zero-index metamaterial (ZIM) structure is proposed for the gain enhancement of a tapered slot antenna. An antipodal tapered slot antenna (ATSA) prototype loaded with the proposed ZIM cells exhibits a gain enhancement of up to 6 dB in the frequency band of 7-13.5 GHz.