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A novel FSS for gain enhancement of printed antennas in UWB frequency spectrum

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posted on 2017-09-15, 14:50 authored by Farooq A. Tahir, Talha Arshad, Sadiq Ullah, James FlintJames Flint
This paper presents a novel compact unilayer frequency selective surface (FSS) for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications particularly for gain enhancement of printed antennas. The proposed FSS unit cell consists of simple metallic patterns printed on both sides of 14 mm × 14 mm FR4 substrate. The proposed FSS has very low transmission co-efficient and linearly decreasing reflection phase over the bandwidth of 9 GHz in 3–12 GHz range, which makes it suitable candidate to provide in-phase reflection for UWB antennas. For the validation of gain-enhancement capability, the FSS is paired with a general monopole UWB antenna demonstrating an average gain improvement of 4 dB. The antenna composite has a maximum gain of 8.9 dBi.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volume

59

Issue

10

Pages

2698 - 2704

Citation

TAHIR, F.A. ... et al, 2017. A novel FSS for gain enhancement of printed antennas in UWB frequency spectrum. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 59 (10), pp. 2698-2704.

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Wiley

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2017-06-13

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2017

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: TAHIR, F.A. ... et al, 2017. A novel FSS for gain enhancement of printed antennas in UWB frequency spectrum. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 59 (10), pp. 2698-2704, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.30789. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

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0895-2477

eISSN

1098-2760

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  • en

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    Frequency selective surfaceUWBHigh gainFSS reflectorGain enhancementMechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified

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