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    • Electromagnetics and Metamaterials
    • Antenna Engineering
    • Microwave Devices

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    • Patch antennas are widely used but often limited by size and bandwidth.
    • Metasurfaces offer potential for antenna miniaturization and performance enhancement.
    • Conventional plane metasurfaces (plane-MS) have limitations in achieving significant size reduction.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce and validate a novel compact antenna design utilizing a stereo metasurface (stereo-MS) superstrate.
    • To demonstrate the effectiveness of stereo-MS in achieving footprint miniaturization and bandwidth enhancement for patch antennas.
    • To confirm the practical application of stereo-MS for size reduction in microwave devices.

    Main Methods:

    • A novel compact antenna was designed by integrating a stereo-MS as the superstrate of a patch antenna.
    • The stereo-MS was fabricated as an array of stereo patches on a grooved dielectric substrate.
    • A prototype antenna operating at 5.3 GHz was designed, fabricated, and experimentally measured.

    Main Results:

    • The stereo-MS antenna achieved over 38% size reduction compared to a conventional plane-MS antenna.
    • A fractional impedance bandwidth of 44.5% (|S11| < -10 dB) was experimentally demonstrated, covering 4.18 to 6.56 GHz.
    • The antenna exhibited an average gain of approximately 6.9 dBi and featured a compact size (0.409 λ0²) and low profile (3.024 mm).

    Conclusions:

    • The stereo-MS superstrate effectively enables significant size miniaturization and bandwidth enhancement of patch antennas.
    • Experimental results validate the design and confirm the functionality of stereo-MS for antenna size reduction.
    • Stereo-MS presents a promising approach for miniaturizing microwave and optical devices, including antennas.