Investigation of the reconfigurable antenna with a set of PIN diodes

Authors

  • P. Bajurko Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
  • Yevhen M. Yashchishyn Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICATT.2009.4435147

Keywords:

reconfigurable antennas, p-i-n diode, leaky wave antenna, microstrip antennas

Abstract

This work presents the design of reconfigurable antenna based on a leaky-wave microstrip line operating on a higher order mode. The antenna structure comprises a set of discrete PIN diodes, modeled in electromagnetic simulation by its equivalent circuit. Relation between the number of diodes and antenna performance is discussed in details.

References

MENZEL, W. A New Travelling-Wave Antenna in Microstrip. Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertra-gungstechnik, 04/1979.

YASHCHYCHYN, Y.; MODELSKI, J. Rigorous Analysis and Investigations of the Scan Antennas on a Ferroelectric Substrate. IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., Feb. 2005, v.53, n.2, p.427-438.

BAJURKO, P.; YASHCHYSHYN, Y. Design and Investigation on the Leaky-Wave Antenna with Reconfigurable Operating Frequency. Proc. of 3rd European Conf. on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP, 23-27 Mar. 2009, Berlin, Germany. 2009.

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Published

2009-10-10

Issue

2009: ICATT’2009 - Proc. of VII Int. Conf. on Antenna Theory and Techniques

Section

Adaptive antenna arrays and signal processing