Bandwidth Enhancement of RMPA Using 2 Segment Labyrinth Metamaterial at THz.docVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2013, 4, 579-588 579 /10.4236/msa.2013.410071 Published Online October 2013 (/journal/msa) Bandwidth Enhancement of RMPA Using 2 Segment Labyrinth Metamaterial at THz Parul Dawar , Asok De 1 2 1 2 Faculty of Electronics and Communication, Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; NIT Patna, Bihar, India. Email: paru.dawar@, asok.de@ Received August 6 , 2013; revised September 8 , 2013; accepted September 17 , 2013 th th th Copyright ? 2013 Parul Dawar, Asok De. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT The past few years have been very eventful with respect to the evolution of the concept and implementation of “left- handed materials (LHMs)”. This paper elucidates antenna parameter optimization using 2 Segment Labyrinth metama- terial embedded in antenna substrate at high frequency (THz). Ansoft HFSS has been used to design and analyse the RMPA (rectangular microstrip patch antenna) with design frequency 9.55 THz and operating range of 8.55 THz to 10.55 THz having RT Duroid (εr = 2.33) as substrate material. Magnetic properties of labyrinth resonator have been used to mathematically demonstrate the negative refraction. Nicolson Ross Wier (NRW) method has been used to re- trieve the material parameters from transmission and reflection coefficient. Upon incorporation, bandwid