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Novel Metamaterials for Patch Antennas Applications

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Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight 2009)

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In this paper we introduce the incorporation of magneto-electric materials into antenna design and the potential of controlling the behavior of the antenna by means of an external magnetic field. After an intensive study of magneto-electric material properties, a ferrimagnetic compound called Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) was found to be the best candidate for the novel antenna design. We provide a metamaterial patch antenna design where a part of the substrate is replaced by the YIG compound. After several design modifications the final model includes a circular-shaped YIG substrate just under the metallic patch and offers sufficient performance in terms of resonance, bandwidth and radiation efficiency. Additionally, in the presence of an external magnetic field the polarization becomes elliptical and the sense of the polarization (left or right) can be controlled through the direction of the magnetic field. That latter characteristic confirms the metamaterial-nature of the antenna.

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  1. Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

    Theodore Zervos, Fotis Lazarakis, Antonis Alexandridis & Kostas Dangakis

  2. Institute of Materials Science, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

    Dimosthenis Stamopoulos & Michalis Pissas

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  1. University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Fabrizio Granelli

  2. Information and Communication Systems Security Laboratory, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Karlovasse, Samos, Greece

    Charalabos Skianis

  3. University of Macedonia, Loggou-Tourpali, 59200, Naousa, Greece

    Periklis Chatzimisios

  4. University of Alabama, 35487-0290, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Yang Xiao

  5. Nokia Siemens Networks, St. Martin Straße 76, 81541, Munich, Germany

    Simone Redana

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Zervos, T., Lazarakis, F., Alexandridis, A., Dangakis, K., Stamopoulos, D., Pissas, M. (2009). Novel Metamaterials for Patch Antennas Applications. In: Granelli, F., Skianis, C., Chatzimisios, P., Xiao, Y., Redana, S. (eds) Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Mobilight 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03819-8_39

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