Metamaterial inspired fidget spinner-shaped antenna based on parasitic split ring resonator for multi-standard wireless applications

Abstract

This paper presents the design of fidget spinner-shaped antenna (FSSA) loaded with parasitic EC-SRR (edge coupled-split ring resonator) for multi-standard wireless applications. Parasitic EC-SRR element-loaded antenna helps to improve the impedance matching and bandwidth of antenna in comparison to the unloaded FSSA. The 50 Ω microstrip line fed has been applied to the structure of proposed antenna to obtain the distinct performance parameters such as reflection coefficient, gain, radiation pattern and efficiency. Comparison of the proposed antenna with and without SRR is made and found that the later case exhibits better results in terms of reflection coefficient and bandwidth. Bandwidth is increased by 21.61% at first two resonance points, 57.57% at third and 32.76% at fourth resonance point. A prototype of the proposed FSSA has also been fabricated and tested for validation of simulated results with measured results, and found in good agreement with each other. The overall dimensions of the proposed FSSA are 30 mm × 30 mm and can be used for different wireless applications in the frequency range 1.88–7.0 GHz, 7.81–8.85 GHz and 9.6–14.3 GHz.

KEYWORDS:

• FSSA
• metamaterial
• SRR
• wideband
• multiband

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Narinder Sharma

Dr. Narinder Sharma is B.E (Electronics), M.Tech (ECE) and Ph.D (ECE) from Uttrakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India. He has total 23 Years of experience. 6 years’ experience in the industry and 17 years’ experience in teaching. He has been associated with Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Amritsar College of Engineering and Technology, Amritsar since 2004. Presently, he has been heading the department of Electronics & Communication Engineering and department of Electrical Engineering. He has more than 8 years’ experience in the administration and 10 years’ experience in research. He is reviewer of the various esteemed journals like IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics (IJRSP) of NISCAIR, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer Aided Engineering (WILEY) and Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer). He is Editorial Board member of “i-manager’s Journal on Communication Engineering and Systems”. He has successfully guided more than 26 students for M.Tech. Thesis and 01 student is pursuing Ph.D under him. He is appointed as Board of Studies member and External Examiner by I.K.G. Punjab Technical University for the evaluation of Ph.D aspirants. He has established the Antenna Designing Lab. in ACET with help of grant Rs. 80,00,000 received from DST under FIST program. He was Session Chair and Co-Chair forvarious reputed international conferences including 3rd IEEE International Conference on MOOCs, Innovation and Technology in Education (MITE-2015). He has delivered the expert talk in IKGPTU sponsored FDP and also attended various Workshops, FDP’s and Conferences. More than 63 research papers in peer reviewed International Journals and 24 papers in reputed International/National conferences goes into his credit.

Sumeet Singh Bhatia

Sumeet Singh Bhatia was born at Sri Karanpur, Rajasthan in 1990. He received Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Amritsar college of Engineering and Technology, Amritsar, Punjab, India in 2012. He completed his Master of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Yadavindra College of Engineering, Guru Kashi Campus, Punjabi University, Talwandi Sabo, Bathinda, Punjab, India in 2015. He has published more than 10 papers in various Journals and referred conferences. His research interest lies in the areas of microstrip antennas and fractal antennas.