Design and Verification of a Novel Anchor Shaped Double Negative Metamaterial Unit Cell

In this manuscript, a novel anchor-shaped double negative metamaterial is proposed. The structure is designed to resonate at 2.45 GHz. The unit cell is designed on a 1.6 mm thick FR4 substrate having a dielectric constant of 4.4, and simulated using Ansys HFSS. The unit cell exhibits a double negative behavior and negative refractive index behavior. The robust and popularly used Nicolson-Ross-Weir and Transmission-Reflection methods were implemented on MATLAB to extract and validate the metamaterial characteristics. This novel metamaterial unit cell covers 1 GHz to 4.8 GHz which is one of the most extensively researched and employed bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. The bandwidth performance of this new structure for double negative behavior is compared to other unit cells. It shows better performance with comparable size and outperforms the other geometries. This metamaterial is well-suited for a wide range of applications like wireless communication, biomedical applications in ISM (2.4 GHz) band and 5G communication services in the sub-6 GHz range.