Table 2 Characteristics of the suggested MM structure's effective parameters.

From: Polarization insensitive dual band metamaterial with absorptance for 5G sub-6 GHz applications

Parameters

Frequency range (GHz)

Near-zero/negative region

Bandwidth threshold

S21

3.1–3.6 and 5.76–5.8

 

\(S_{21} < - 10\,{\text{dB}}\)

\(\varepsilon_{r}\)

3.37–4.5 and 5.8–5.95

 

\(\varepsilon_{r} < 0\)

\(\mu_{r}\)

3.37 and 5.8

0.02 and 0.13 (real)

\(\mu_{r} < 0\)

n

3.39 and 5.81

− 2.88 and − 2.06 (real)

\(n < - 1.5\)