Electrically Tunable Left-Handed Textile Metamaterial for Microwave Applications
Kabir Hossain, Thennarasan Sabapathy, Muzammil Jusoh, Ping Jack Soh, Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin, Samir Salem Al‐Bawri, Mohamed Nasrun Osman, R. Badlishah Ahmad, Hasliza A. Rahim, Mohd Najib Mohd Yasin, Nitin Saluja
Abstract
An electrically tunable, textile-based metamaterial (MTM) is presented in this work. The proposed MTM unit cell consists of a decagonal-shaped split-ring resonator and a slotted ground plane integrated with RF varactor diodes. The characteristics of the proposed MTM were first studied independently using a single unit cell, prior to different array combinations consisting of 1 × 2, 2 × 1, and 2 × 2 unit cells. Experimental validation was conducted for the fabricated 2 × 2 unit cell array format. The proposed tunable MTM array exhibits tunable left-handed characteristics for both simulation and measurement from 2.71 to 5.51 GHz and provides a tunable transmission coefficient of the MTM. Besides the left-handed properties within the frequency of interest (from 1 to 15 GHz), the proposed MTM also exhibits negative permittivity and permeability from 8.54 to 10.82 GHz and from 10.6 to 13.78 GHz, respectively. The proposed tunable MTM could operate in a dynamic mode using a feedback system for different microwave wearable applications.