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ReviewMicromachines2023

Metamaterials and Their Application in the Performance Enhancement of Reconfigurable Antennas: A Review.

Musa Hussain, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Mohammed S Alzaidi, Niamat Hussain, Esraa Mousa Ali, Francisco Falcone

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Review in Micromachines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Musa HussainDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Bahria University Islamabad Campus, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-3258-2573
Wahaj Abbas AwanDepartment of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4397-4211
Mohammed S AlzaidiDepartment of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-3589-8669
Niamat HussainDepartment of Smart Device Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9730-4622
Esraa Mousa AliFaculty of Aviation Sciences, Amman Arab University, Amman 11953, Jordan.
Francisco FalconeElectrical Engineering and Communications Department, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Campus Arrosadía, E-31006 Pamplona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4911-9753

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metamaterials exhibit properties in terms of subwavelength operation or phase manipulation, among others, that can be used in a variety of applications in 5G communication systems. The future and current 5G devices demand high efficiency, high data rate, computational capabilities, cost-effectiveness, compact size, and low power consumption. This variation and advancement are possible when the antenna design is revised to operate over wideband, high gain, and multiband and has characteristics of compact size, reconfiguration, absorption, and simple ease of fabrication. The materials loaded with antennas or, in the same cases, without antennas, offer the aforementioned characteristics to bring advancement in order to facilitate users. A number of works on designing metasurfaces capable of improving bandwidth, gain efficiency, and reducing the size and cost of antennas are available in the literature for this purpose. Not only are these applications possible, but the intelligent metasurfaces are also designed to obtain reconfiguration in terms of frequency and polarization. The number of absorbers loaded with metamaterials is also designed to improve the absorption percentage used for radar applications. Thus, in this paper, the general overview of different types of metamaterials and their role in performance enhancement and application in 5G and 6G communication systems is discussed.

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5Gmetamaterialsmetasurfacesperformance improvement

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PMID36838049
PMCPMC9964562

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