A new design of compact micro strip antenna, based on a newly structure "E"SRR of metamaterial is proposed and designed using CST Microwave Studio. It has been found that the characteristics of new micro strip antenna with novel designed metamaterials placed in the same plane as the radiating element are comparable to the conventional patch antennas, whereas its gain, directivity, and radiating efficiency are remarkably improved. For the design and fabricated antenna, it shows that with the addition of split ring resonator, the frequency has been shifted from 2.38 GHz to 2.4 GHz. The return loss of this antenna increased from −60 dB to −70 dB. The realized gain increased from 7.1 dbi for the antenna alone to 7.31 dbi for the meta-material antenna. Prototype for all antennas are fabricated and measured. Good agreement between the measured and simulated results is achieved.
K E Y W O R D SCST microwave studio, ESRR, metamaterials, microstrip patch antenna, RFID