Maze-enclosed quad symmetric kite shaped SRR based metamaterial absorber for doppler navigation aids and earth exploration satellite remote sensing services

Abstract

This paper represents a wide incident angle-polarization insensitive, stable in results, and compact-sized metamaterial absorber that can be used for Doppler navigation aids and remote sensing applications in Earth Exploration Satellite Services. The unit cell dimension was subwavelength-sized of 0.112λ X 0.112λ, with a good effective medium ratio (8.9), and achieved polarization insensitivity at a maximum incident angle up to 180°, making it more effective for proposed applications. The absorber resonated at 3.855 GHz, 5.13 GHz, 9.855 GHz, 13.335 GHz, and 16.02 GHz with single negative metamaterial properties due to negative permeability and absorptions of 99.7 %, 99.2 %, 98.6 %, 98.1 %, and 97.9 %, respectively. An RLC equivalent circuit on ADS was analyzed to validate the simulated results using the dipoles created by the surface currents. The absorber is cost-effective as no lumped elements or multilayer substrate materials were used, making fabricating less time-consuming and simple. The simulated results were validated by measuring data from a vector network analyzer after fabricating it. The proposed metamaterial absorber is suitable for use in Doppler navigation and Earth Exploration Satellite Services, and this research can further be extended to beamforming and sensing applications in the future.

Keywords

• Metamaterial absorber
• Polarization insensitive
• Sensing
• Subwavelength
• EMR