Estudo da interferência de uma metasuperfície no desempenho das antenas de microfita

Abstract

This paper aims to present the influence of a metasurface, a special type of metamaterials, in the performace of microstrip antennas. The metasurface are artificial materials that are not found in a conventional manner in nature and do not have conventional electromagnetic characteristics such as refractive index and coefficient of permittivity and negative magnetic permeability which causes attractive electromagnetic effects for various applications, such as: improving the performance of a microstrip antenna as will be shown in this work. We started the work showing a brief history, definitions and electromagnetic properties of the antennas, microstrip antennas, metamaterials and metasuperfícies. Next, we will design and manufacture a microstrip antenna with and without the use of a metasurface where we will simulate through HFSS Ansoft Designer software and test in the laboratory with the E5071C ENA Network Analyzer. Finally, we will perform a comparative analysis, showing how the metasurface improves the performance of a microstrip antenna by analysis of the various parameters antenna, such as: return loss, power gain, directivity and input impedance.