An Artificial Material with Single Layer Configuration for Antenna Gain Enhancement

Abstract

Artificial material is a good coordinator for RF applications because its customizable permittivity provides a freedom of design for the RF devices. Additionally, miniaturization or thin configuration of the devices can be realized by using an artificial material with a high-value permittivity. An artificial material made of multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) for patch antenna gain enhancement has been proposed by our group [1] . This paper proposes an artificial material made of single layer PCB configuration for antenna gain enhancement.