Design of Reconfigurable Millimeter-Wave Patch Antenna

Reconfigurable antenna is a novel concept of antenna. A novel reconfigurable millimeter-wave patch antenna is proposed and simulated by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The simulation results demonstrate that the antenna can operate in two states and shift the operation frequency band between 22.830.8GHz and 28.737.3GHz as the state is changed. This antenna is useful for millimeter-wave wireless communication and radar systems.     

复合基底圆极化微带贴片天线建模与仿真

设计了一种用于无源射频识标签,中心谐振频率为2.45GHz的圆极化微带贴片天线。设计中引入了Rogers RO4232 (tm),Rogers RO4003 (tm)以及玻璃短纤维增强聚四氟乙稀三种材质的复合基底,利用Ansoft HFSS 10.0进行建模,并对设计模块进行仿真和优化处理,仿真结果表明天线的方向性良好,有效增益为5.534dB, 带宽>50MHz(S11<-15dB),阻抗匹配良好。驻波比、辐射效率均与理论期望吻合,各项指标达到了航空配件管理及维修记录的实际需求且易于实现,价格低廉,可靠性好。     

Dual-Band Bi-Directional Pattern Reconfigurable Fractal Patch Antenna for Millimeter Wave Application

A novel dual-band bi-directional reconfigurable antenna based on Koch patch is presented in this paper. By controlling the switches in the slots etched on the Koch patch, different far field bi-directional patterns at the dual-band around 60 GHz/80 GHz could be achieved. And full azimuthal coverage at this dual-band is possible by electronically controlling the switches in the slots of the patch. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60371008, No. 90505001) and the CRT Program of UESTC.     

A Circularly Polarized Stacked Patch Aperture Coupled Microstrip Antenna for 2.6 GHz Band

A circularly polarized stacked patch microstrip antenna and a 2 × 2 subarray for circular polarization are proposed in this paper. The proposed design has the input impedance bandwidth and axial ratio bandwidth of about 10% and 4.7% respectively. Circular polarization is obtained with the help of slits cut in the patch. A size reduction of around 37% is also achieved with the help of the slits. A subarray based on sequentially rotated feeding technique for circular polarization is also presented in this paper. Array element was deigned using a high dielectric constant laminate for feed network. In addition to low boresight axial-ratio, the subarray has impedance and 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidths of 12% and 8% respectively.     

Analysis of single band and dual band graphene based patch antenna for terahertz region

A microstrip patch antenna is designed using a very thin layer of graphene as the radiating patch, which is fed by a microstrip transmission line. The graphene based patch is designed on a silicon substrate having a dielectric constant of 11.9, to radiate at a single frequency of 2.6 THz. Further, this antenna is made to resonate at dual frequencies of 2.48 THz and 3.35 THz, by changing the substrate height, which is reported for the first time. Various antenna parameters such as return loss, VSWR, gain, efficiency and bandwidth are also determined for the single and dual band operation. For the single band operation, a bandwidth of 145.4 GHz and an efficiency of 92% was achieved. For dual band operation, a maximum bandwidth of 140.5 GHz was obtained at 3.35 THz and an efficiency of 87.3% was obtained at the first resonant frequency of 2.48 THz. The absorption cross section of the antenna is also analysed for various substrate heights and has maximum peaks at the corresponding resonating frequencies. The simulation has been carried out by using a full wave electromagnetic simulator based on FDTD method.