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Item A Zero Index Based Meta-Lens Loaded Wideband Directive Antenna Combined with Reactive Impedance Surface(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018) Majumder, B.; Kandasamy, K.; Ray, K.P.In this paper, an aperture efficient wideband high-gain patch antenna is designed using a novel multilayer-based metamaterial structure combined with a reactive impedance surface (RIS)-backed patch antenna. The metamaterial unit cell is a two-layer structure which is stacked one after other to form the overall unit cell. The microscopic behavior of the proposed unit cell has been investigated. This unit cell gives low refractive index over a wide bandwidth with a negligible loss. An RIS-backed patch antenna has been designed in the required frequency band to feed the multilayer zero-index metamaterial medium. The introduction of this surface is to provide unidirectional radiation over a wideband in the zero refractive index region. The proposed antenna gives a 14% fractional bandwidth over the $C$ - and $X$ -bands. The proposed antenna enhances the peak gain of the conventional patch antenna by an amount of 8.5 dB at 8 GHz. Finally, the antenna has been fabricated and its performance is verified experimentally. © 2013 IEEE.Item Slot coupled dual band high gain circularly polarized metasurface antenna(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022) Tharehalli Rajanna, P.K.; Rudramuni, K.; Kandasamy, K.This article presents a slot coupled dual-band metasurface (MTS) based antenna with high gain and circular polarization characteristics. The MTS consists of two different unit cells, which give rise to two operating bands. The metasurface is excited by the slot aperture fed by a 50 Ω microstrip feed-line. The circular polarization is achieved by the diagonally oriented rectangular patch-based unit cells on top of the square substrate. Two orthogonal modes of MTS are required to produce circularly polarized waves, and these modes are excited by the slot aperture. The proposed MTS-inspired antenna is fabricated and experimentally validated. The experimentally verified impedance bandwidth of 33.71% in the lower frequency band and 5.35% in the upper-frequency band is achieved. The measured 3 dB (AR <3 dB)axial ratio bandwidth of 6.22% and 0.98% with a peak gain of 8.89 and 6.32 dBic is achieved with respect to 4.8 and 6.4 GHz resonant frequencies. © 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.