Thennarasan Sabapathy
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Thennarasan Sabapathy
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Thennarasan, Sabapathy
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Sabapathy, Thennarasan
Sabapathy, Thenna
Sabapathy, T.
Sapabathy, T.
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A gain-enhanced multiband frequency and pattern reconfigurable antenna for Wi-Fi 6E and 5G new radio wireless standards

2024-10 , M. Ganesh , N. S. Raghava , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Yashna Sharma

In this paper, a multiband hybrid reconfigurable antenna with enhanced gain is reported to support Wi‐Fi 6E, indoor WLAN, and 5G new radio (NR) wireless standards. The reported structure consists of a half‐hexagonal‐shaped radiating element along with two symmetrical rectangular single‐split resonators interconnected via two PIN diodes to achieve multiband frequency and pattern reconfigurability of the proposed antenna and a single‐layer frequency selective surface (FSS) to enhance the gain. By configuring these PIN diodes in three distinct modes, the reported antenna allows for independent reconfigurability to support multipurpose sub‐6GHz and Wi‐Fi 6E (3.3, 3.5, 5.1, 5.3, and 6.5 GHz) wireless standards, respectively. The results also showed that the antenna is capable of maintaining a frequency of 6.5 GHz in all modes while reconfiguring its radiation pattern in three different directions, namely, 265°, 13°, and 337° on the xz plane. The gain of the proposed hybrid reconfigurable antenna is enhanced by an FSS‐based reflector placed below the radiating structure at a distance of to the lowest operating frequency (3.3 GHz), and the gain is enhanced by 2–4 dBi as compared without FSS. The reported hybrid reconfigurable antenna is implemented on an FR‐4 substrate with a depth of 1.6 mm and a relative permittivity of 4.4. For validation of the proposed structure, the experimental results are compared with the simulated results.

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ENG and NZRI Characteristics of Decagonal-Shaped Metamaterial for Wearable Applications

2020-08-01 , Kabir Hossain , Thennarasan Sabapathy , Soh Ping Jack , Muzammil Jusoh , Fazilah, Ainur Fasihah Mohd , Ahmad Ashraf Abdul Halim , Raghava N.S. , Podilchak S.K. , Schreurs D. , Abbasi Q.H.

A decagonal-shaped split ring resonator metamaterial based on a wearable or textile-based material is presented in this work. Analysis and comparison of various structure sizes are compared considering a compact 6\times 6\ \mathrm{m}\mathrm{m}{2} metamaterial unit cell, in particular, where robust transmission-reflection (RTR) and Nicolson-Ross-Weir (NRW) methods have been performed to extract the effective metamaterial parameters. An investigation based on the RTR method indicated an average bandwidth of 1.39 GHz with a near-zero refractive index (NZRI) and a 2.35 GHz bandwidth when considering epsilon negative (ENG) characteristics. On the other hand, for the NRW method, approximately 0.95 GHz of NZRI bandwidth and 2.46 GHz of ENG bandwidth have been observed, respectively. These results are also within the ultra-wideband (UWB) frequency range, suggesting that the proposed unit cell structure is suitable for textile UWB antennas, biomedical sensors, related wearable systems, and other wireless body area network communication systems.

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A metasurface based close-proximity two-port circularly polarized MIMO antenna for mid-band sub-6 GHz 5G applications

2024-08-01 , Angadi S. , Sharma Y. , Raghava N.S. , Thennarasan Sabapathy

This work presents a compact dual-band two-port multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna with high performance that is specifically used for 5G applications. The proposed design comprises closely spaced, mirror-symmetrical X-shaped structures positioned at an edge spacing of 0.02 λ0 between antenna elements. Subsequently, a metasurface is located at a distance of 0.27 λ0 above the radiator to improve the performance of the MIMO antenna. The proposed antenna resonates at 3.27 GHz within a frequency range of (3.03–3.44) GHz in the primary band, achieving a peak realized gain of 7.57 dBi. In the secondary band, the resonance occurs at 4.78 GHz with a range of (4.01–5.87) GHz below −10 dB reflection coefficient and produces a peak realized gain of 5.60 dBi. After positioning the metasurface on top of the reference antenna, the peak realized gain improves by 116.28 % in the primary band and 69.69 % in the secondary band respectively. Whereas the isolation is increased to −30.01 dB from –22.26 dB in the primary band, similarly for the secondary band the isolation is amended to −21.00 dB from −18.20 dB. Moreover, circular polarization is realized at working frequencies after placing the metasurface on the reference antenna. Simulation and measurement results prove that the S-parameters exceed more than −20 dB in both frequency bands. Additionally, MIMO performance metrics, including envelope correlation coefficient (ECC), channel capacity loss (CCL), total active reflection coefficient (TARC), mean effective gain (MEG), and diversity gain (DG) are simulated and measured. The designed antenna proves suitable for the new radio (NR) 5G of n48 (3.55–3.70 GHz) in the primary band and the n79 (4.4–5.0 GHz) in the secondary band respectively.

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