Reconfigurable Polarization Slot Antenna

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Abstract: A broadband polarization-reconfigurable slot antenna and 2 × 2 array with compact feed network are proposed in this letter. The wide circle slot, etched on the ground, serves as the radiation aperture with a wideband characteristic. Selvam, YogeshwariPanneer, et al. 'Novel frequency-and pattern-reconfigurable rhombic patch antenna with switchable polarization.' IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letter, vol.16, pp.1639-1642,2017. Rasool, Maryam, et al. 'A compact open complementary split ring resonator inspired triband reconfigurable coplanar waveguide fed antenna.' The annular slot antenna consists of a circular slot on a square, metal ground plane that is fed by a microstrip line, designed on the bottom of the Duroid substrate. The mean length of the slot circumference is approximately 3 λs/2 at the frequency of 5.8 GHz. Polarization reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna is presented for 2.4–2.5 GHz wireless sensor network and WLAN applications. Dual feed degenerate mode patch is used as the starting point for ci.

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Reconfigurability is a vital feature of future agile millimeter wave systems for sensing, imaging, wireless, and satellite communications. Reconfigurable antennas are an integral part of such systems as they can control polarization, frequency, radiation pattern, or characteristic impedance.

Paraffin-Based Reconfigurable Components at Millimeter Wave

Figure 1: Multiphysiscs simulation results for Von Mises stress and temperature distribution of the paraffin PCM actuator for input voltage of 2 V.

The main goal of this project is to design low-loss millimeter wave (mmW) RF components using novel materials such as paraffin. Alkane or paraffin is an organic phase change material (PCM) that exhibits low a dielectric loss, (tan⁡δ=6.6E-4 at 110 GHz), with a relative dielectric constant of 2.26. Paraffin is also a mechanical PCM that undergoes a 15% volumetric change through its solid-liquid phase change.

Due to its unique electrical and mechanical properties, paraffin PCM variable capacitors are very attractive for designing reconfigurable antennas and distributed loaded line phase shifters at mmW band.

Figure 2: Micrograph of the fabricated reconfigurable antenna.

In our group, we have developed a continuously reconfigurable antenna at 100 GHz by monolithically integrating the paraffin PCM capacitors with a slot antenna. Designed antenna has a reconfiguration range of 96–102.2 GHz with a maximum gain of 3 dBi. (Figures 1—2)

In addition, we have also developed a distributed loaded line phase shifter based on a new class of electro-thermally actuated RF MEMS devices using paraffin PCM. Designed phase shifter has a figure-of merit of 71.8°/dB achieved while maintaining a return loss more than 12 dB.

Figure 3: Multiphysiscs simulation results for Von Mises stress and temperature distribution of the paraffin PCM actuator for input voltage of 5 V. Designed phase shifter has a maximum insertion loss of 5 dB for a 360° of phase shift. (Figure 3)

Related Papers

B. Ghassemiparvin and N. Ghalichechian, “Reconfigurable Millimeter-wave Antennas using Paraffin Phase Change Materials,” European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos, Switzerland, 10-15 Apr, 2016. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481595 (Download PDF)

B. Ghassemiparvin and N. Ghalichechian, “Novel Paraffin-Based 100-GHz Variable Capacitors for Reconfigurable Antennas,' European Conference on Antennas and Propogation (EuCAP), Paris, France, 19-24 Mar, 2017.DOI:https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP.2017.7928379(Download PDF)

B. Ghassemiparvin and N. Ghalichechian, 'W-Band True-Time Delay Phase Shifters Using Paraffin Microactuators,' European Conference on Antennas and Propogation (EuCAP), London, UK, 9-13 Apr, 2018.

Source

Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP)>402 - 404

Abstract

A polarization-reconfigurable slot antenna, for WLAN applications, is presented in this paper. The antenna incorporates a reconfigurable Wilkinson power divider-based feed network, which couples electromagnetic energy to a decagonal slot in the ground plane. The approach, presented herein, is based on electronically reconfiguring the phase difference, between the antenna's feeding ports, to achieve polarization diversity while the antenna is still operable over the desired frequency band. The proposed antenna is designed and simulated using Ansoft HFSS, a Finite-Element-Method based EM solver. The computed return loss, for each case, is better than 10 dB over the 2.4-2.484 GHz frequency range. A prototype of the designed antenna is fabricated and measured. An acceptable analogy between measured and simulated S₁₁ plots is witnessed. For each switching condition, the radiation pattern, axial-ratio and peak gain of the antenna are included herein.

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book ISBN :	978-1-4577-0250-1
book e-ISBN :	978-88-8202-074-3 , 978-88-8202-074-3

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Ramadan, A.