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This paper explores a novel metamaterial-inspired low-scattering electric quadrupole antenna in the microwave regime. The metasurface unit cell used here is the well-known stacked dogbone doublet which is conventionally used to get electric and magnetic resonances under plane wave illumination. An offset in the position of the upper dogbone metallization results in the excitation of the higher-order high-Q electric quadrupole resonance having insignificant scattering in comparison with the fundamental resonances. This unit cell is hence used as the base element of an antenna and electric quadrupole resonance is excited using direct probe feed while the fundamental electric and magnetic resonances are suppressed. The fabricated antenna shows a 2:1 VSWR bandwidth of 4% and a measured radiation efficiency of 42% around resonance. The experimental studies are conducted inside an anechoic chamber using a vector network analyzer, computational studies are performed using the full-wave CST Microwave Studio and these results are validated using the multipole scattering theory.
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Sarin, V.P., Raj, R.K., Sreekala, P.S. et al. A Metamaterial Inspired Low-Scattering Electric Quadrupole Antenna. Wireless Pers Commun 132, 131–145 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10595-x
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