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Dielectric Resonator Antenna Loaded with Reconfigurable Plasma Metamaterial Polarization Converter

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In this paper, a plasma based metamaterial (MM) polarizer is optimized for linear to circular polarization conversion in Ku-band wireless applications. The plasma MM polarizer is design based on the transmission mode. The proposed plasma MM polarizer unit-cell element consists of back-to-back plasma arcs placed on the top and the bottom faces of a dielectric substrate. Polarization Conversion from linear polarized (LP) wave to circular polarized (CP) wave requires that the incident wave is splitted into two orthogonal components with equal magnitudes and π/2 phase difference. The polarization characteristics of the plasma MM polarizer have bandwidth of 17.5% centered around 13.7 GHz. A linearly polarized dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is designed with impedance bandwidth of 27.05%. The LP-DRA loaded with plasma MM polarizer radiates CP-waves with improved gain of 8.89 dBi. Reconfigurable CP radiation right-hand, left-hand, or linear polarization is achieved when the argon gas in the lower, upper, or both arc-shaped containers is ionized to plasma state. The proposed plasma MM polarizer and the DRA structures are examined utilizing a full-wave simulator.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Badr University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Saber Helmy Zainud-Deen

  2. Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt

    Mona Magdy Badawy & Hend Abd El-Azem Malhat

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Zainud-Deen, S.H., Badawy, M.M. & Malhat, H.AA. Dielectric Resonator Antenna Loaded with Reconfigurable Plasma Metamaterial Polarization Converter. Plasmonics 14, 1321–1328 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-019-00996-9

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