Table 2 Performance comparison for different design-evolution steps toward the proposed unit cell.

From: Electromagnetic characterization of mirror symmetric resonator based metamaterial and frequency tuning: a dielectric based multilayer approach

Design steps

Frequency of resonance

Bandwidth (GHz)

Covering bands

EMR

Design 1

5.6

2.54

C

5.4

Design 2

4.2, 5.7, 10.3

0.62,1.27, 0.75

C, X

7.14

Design 3

3.6, 4.4, 8.5, 10.7

0.34, 0.15, 2.6, 0.14

C, X

8.3

Proposed MTM

1.98, 3.67, 4.74, 8.38, 10.8

0.64, 0.07, 0.05, 2.64, 0.11

L, S, C, X

7.5