Design and simulation of metamaterial-based hybrid-mode horn antennas

The design and analysis of novel hybrid-mode soft and hard horn antennas with a low index metamaterial wall liner are presented. Metamaterial horn antennas have the potential for considerably larger bandwidth than the current state-of-the-art horns. The optimal or required metamaterial dispersion curve for these horns is qualitatively similar to the Drude dispersion, which indicates that the metamaterial horns are realisable.