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Item A High-Gain Circularly Polarized Antenna Using Zero-Index Metamaterial(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Tharehalli Rajanna, P.K.T.; Rudramuni, K.; Kandasamy, K.In this letter, a novel high-gain circularly polarized (CP) antenna based on the zero-index metamaterial (ZIM) is presented. A square ring with two asymmetrical splits is used as a unit cell to achieve high gain and circular polarization. The 9 × 9 periodic array unit cells act as an aperture efficient focusing metasurface lens and polarization converter for a primary source antenna. The focusing effect of the ZIM enhances the gain of the microstrip patch antenna placed above it by an amount of 5-6 dB. Also, the ZIM converts the linearly polarized wave emitted by the patch antenna into circularly polarized waves. The circular polarization is achieved by optimizing the two split gaps on the ring of the unit cell, which gives two orthogonal polarizations with the required phase. The proposed design is fabricated and verified experimentally. The prototype has measured impedance bandwidth from 7.04 to 7.68 GHz. The 3 dB axial ratio is achieved from 7.11 to 7.56 GHz, with a peak gain of 12.31 dBic at 7.45 GHz. The gain of around 11.5 dBic is achieved over the entire CP bandwidth with a good cross-polarization level. © 2002-2011 IEEE.Item Compact triband circularly polarized planar slot antenna loaded with split ring resonators(John Wiley and Sons Inc. P.O.Box 18667 Newark NJ 07191-8667, 2019) Tharehalli Rajanna, P.K.T.; Rudramuni, K.; Kandasamy, K.In this article, a coplanar waveguide (CPW) fed triband circularly polarized (CP) planar slot antenna loaded with split ring resonators (SRRs) is presented. The truncated slot antenna resonates at 4.15 GHz, which gives two orthogonal degenerate modes to produce circular polarization at the first band. The second and third band resonances are achieved at 4.77 GHz and 5.1 GHz respectively due to the loading of SRRs on the slot antenna. The electric fields produced by the single and multiple split gaps in each ring of SRR1 and SRR2 produce CP at the second and third band. All three bands are tuned independently to achieve optimized axial ratio bandwidth. The antenna is fabricated and verified experimentally. The measured results give impedance bandwidth of 64.54% and axial ratio bandwidths of 11.76%, 1.9%, and 3.87% at first, second, and third band, respectively. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Item Characteristic mode-based compact circularly polarized metasurface antenna for in-band RCS reduction(Cambridge University Press Journals_subscriptions@cup.cam.ac.uk, 2020) Tharehalli Rajanna, P.K.; Rudramuni, K.; Kandasamy, K.This paper presents a novel design of a low profile circularly polarized (CP) metasurface (MTS) antenna with in-band radar cross-section (RCS) reduction property. The MTS is loaded as a superstrate on slot antenna and it can be viewed as a polarization-dependent MTS (PDMTS). The rectangular patch-based PDMTS is analyzed using characteristic mode analysis to find two orthogonal degenerate modes, which produces CP waves. Linearly polarized slot antenna is used to excite the PDMTS. The performance of PDMTS loaded slot antenna is analyzed numerically using full-wave analysis method. The PDMTS CP antenna is fabricated and its performance is tested experimentally. The proposed antenna has a compact structure and it has an overall size of (where is the free space wavelength). The measured results show that the PDMTS antenna achieves impedance bandwidth of 29.41, 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth of 9.05, broadside gain of 6.34 dB, and monostatic RCS reduction of at the resonant frequency of 5.86 GHz. The simulated results are in well agreement with the measured results and it is well suited for C-band Radar and Satellite communication. © © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2019.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.