A compact D-CRLH metamaterial antenna for WLAN and WiMAX multiband

摘要

This paper presents a compact multiband antenna formed from only one cell of dual composite right left handed transmission line (D-CRLH TL), which employs metamaterial loading on a conventional monopole to attain a certain degree of miniaturization. The proposed configuration is simple as uniplanar structure, and is operating at 2.45, 3.60 and 5.60 GHz, covering the WLANs and WiMAX bands, and its dimension is only 20 × 16 × 1.6 mm3. The design concepts, the simulation and the experimental results are reported.