Planar metamaterial based on hybridization for directive emission.

Abdelwaheb Ourir1, Redha Abdeddaim, Julien de Rosny

  • 1Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (Ministry of Education) and Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China. yulong@sjtu.edu.cn

Optics Express
|October 6, 2012
PubMed
Summary

We experimentally demonstrated a mu and epsilon near zero (MENZ) metamaterial to enhance antenna directivity. This novel metamaterial superstrate significantly boosts the performance of microstrip patch antennas at 10.5 GHz.