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Decoupling and Cloaking of Rectangular and Circular Patch Antennas and Interleaved Antenna Arrays with Coated Metasurfaces at C-Band Frequencies

Version 1 : Received: 7 December 2023 / Approved: 8 December 2023 / Online: 8 December 2023 (04:46:53 CET)

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Pawar, S.; Lee, D.; Skinner, H.; Suh, S.-Y.; Yakovlev, A. Decoupling and Cloaking of Rectangular and Circular Patch Antennas and Interleaved Antenna Arrays with Planar Coated Metasurfaces at C-Band Frequencies—Design and Simulation Study. Sensors 2024, 24, 291. Pawar, S.; Lee, D.; Skinner, H.; Suh, S.-Y.; Yakovlev, A. Decoupling and Cloaking of Rectangular and Circular Patch Antennas and Interleaved Antenna Arrays with Planar Coated Metasurfaces at C-Band Frequencies—Design and Simulation Study. Sensors 2024, 24, 291.

Abstract

Electromagnetic cloaking approach is employed with the intention to curb the destructive effects of mutual interference for rectangular and circularly shaped patch antennas situated in a tight spacing (sub-wavelength separation is employed). Primarily, we show that by coating the top surface of each patch with an appropriately designed metasurface, it is possible to considerably reduce the mutual coupling between the said antennas. We also demonstrate that, despite the close proximity of these patches, the individual radiation characteristic of each antenna is reinstated to emulate their performance in an isolated scenario. Furthermore, the cloak construct is extended to a tightly spaced, interleaved linear patch antenna array configuration and it is shown that the coated metasurfaces successfully enhance the performance of each array in terms of their matching characteristics, total efficiencies as well as their far-field realized gain patterns for a broad range of beam-scan angles. The decoupling and cloaking action of these metasurfaces are demonstrated by various full-wave numerical simulation results. We believe that the simple planar structure of our metasurface design (according to simulation models) makes it feasible for fabrication and the fact that it is used to accomplish cloaking of an electrically large antenna surface, makes it unique in itself.

Keywords

cloaking; coated metasurfaces; microstrip patch antennas; mutual interference; reduction of mutual coupling

Subject

Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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