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Design of a Metamaterial Absorber for High Isolation of a WCDMA Indoor Repeater Antenna

WCDMA 댁내형 중계기 안테나의 격리도 개선을 위한 메타 구조 기반의 흡수체 설계

  • Yoon, Na-Nae (Department of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Kim, Hyoung-Jun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University) ;
  • Seo, Chul-Hun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University)
  • Received : 2012.07.26
  • Accepted : 2012.09.20
  • Published : 2012.09.30

Abstract

In this paper, an absorber based on metamaterial is proposed to improve the isolation of conventional WCDMA indoor repeater antenna. The proposed absorber is composed of Double Split Ring Resonators(DSRRs) and Complementary Spiral(CS) structure. The proposed absorber based on metamaterial is $9.6mm{\times}9.6mm{\times}1.2mm$ and absorption is about 94 % at 2.2875 GHz. The proposed antenna, which proposed absorber is applied to conventional WCDMA indoor repeater antenna, has isolation over 85 dB. Isolation is improved more than 10 dB compared with the conventional antenna. The VSWR is lower than 2 at WCDMA band from 1.92 GHz to 2.17 GHz. The radiation patterns are $60^{\circ}{\pm}10^{\circ}$ E-plane and H-plane, respectively. And, the gain is more than 6 dBi. The volume of proposed antenna with absorber based on metamaterial is $90mm{\times}90mm{\times}44.8mm$.

본 논문에서는 기존의 WCDMA 댁내형 중계기 안테나의 격리도를 개선하기 위해 안테나에 적용할 메타 구조 기반의 흡수체를 제안하였다. 제안된 흡수체는 Double Split Ring Resonators(DSRRs) 구조와 Complementary Spiral(CS) 구조로 구성하였다. 메타 구조 기반의 흡수체의 크기는 $9.6mm{\times}9.6mm{\times}1.2mm$이며, 2.2875 GHz에서 약 94 %의 흡수율을 가진다. 제안된 흡수체를 기존의 WCDMA 댁내형 중계기 안테나에 적용한 결과, 85 dB 이상의 격리도 특성을 가지며, 기존의 안테나보다 10 dB 이상 개선하였다. VSWR 특성은 WCDMA 대역 1.92 GHz에서 2.17 GHz 사이에서 2 이하이며, 방사 특성은 E-plane, H-plane 각각 $60^{\circ}{\pm}10^{\circ}$을 가지며, 이득은 6 dBi 이상을 가진다. 제안된 흡수체를 적용한 안테나의 크기는 $90mm{\times}90mm{\times}44.8mm$이다.

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