Design of a Flexible Metasurface-Based Dual Bandpass Filter in ISM and IoT Bands Towards Wearable Applications
摘要
This work presents a single layered metasurface (MS)-based slot type dual bandpass wearable filter with low insertion loss and sharp roll off performances. The substrate material selected is jeans, having a relative permittivity of 1.68; thereby making the design wearable in nature. The proposed structure’s unit cell comprises mainly three shapes of slots viz., a rectangular ring, a square and a dumbbell-shaped. The filter exhibits two transmission peaks at 2.45 GHz and 4.7 GHz, respectively and hence is well suited for biomedical applications at the ISM and IoT bands. Furthermore, the proposed filter also has a good stop band in between the transmission bands and hence can be useful for wearable applications. The 3-dB transmission bandwidths of the wearable filter have been computed as 1.21 GHz and 0.86 GHz respectively. The electric field distributions at the transmission peaks are studied to understand the roles of the various slots in the final design. The angular stability of the proposed filter is also analyzed under incident angle variation to find its potential use in various wearable applications.