International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies (IJWMT)
IJWMT Vol. 11, No. 1, 8 Feb. 2021
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Design of a Compact Fractal Unit Cell Absorber for the 2.45 GHz Band
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Electromagnetic absorber, metamaterial, Minkowski fractal, unit cell
Abstract
This paper presents the design of a fractal unit cell absorber for electromagnetic energy absorption in the 2.45 GHz band. The configuration is based on a second-order Minkowski-inspired fractal geometry, through which a compact structure is realized. The proposed design is achieved using full-wave electromagnetic simulations and the study of an equivalent circuit model. At 2.45 GHz, the synthesized structure achieves a near-perfect absorptivity of 99%, with a modest footprint of 0.11λ. The realized structure can serve as a constituent element for the design of absorber arrays to mitigate multipath effects and prevent eavesdropping attacks in indoor wireless environments.
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Akaa Agbaeze Eteng, " Design of a Compact Fractal Unit Cell Absorber for the 2.45 GHz Band", International Journal of Wireless and Microwave Technologies(IJWMT), Vol.11, No.1, pp. 15-21, 2021. DOI: 10.5815/ijwmt.2021.01.02
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