A novel reconfigurable multiband patch antenna

Author

Agrawal, Rahul ; Awadhwal, Girish ; Meshram, M.K. ; Singh, S.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi, India

fYear

2012

fDate

1-2 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents the simulation study of novel frequency reconfigurable microstrip antenna that uses switched connections. The antenna structure comprises a center patch antenna known as driven patch and six adjacent microstrip patches defined as sub-patches. The reconfiguration ability of the antenna is obtained by inserting small switches from sub-patches to main patch. Different switch configurations were investigated and different functionalities of the antenna were obtained. The antenna has many practical applications (in C band), like in wireless LAN, WiMAX and many other systems. The antenna application area is changed according to which set of switches is activated.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; frequency reconfigurable microstrip antenna; reconfigurable multiband patch antenna; switched connections; Antenna radiation patterns; Gain; Microstrip; Microstrip antennas; Patch antennas; Resonant frequency; HFSS; MEMS; Microstrip antennas; reconfigurable architectures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical, Electronics and Computer Science (SCEECS), 2012 IEEE Students' Conference on

Conference_Location

Bhopal

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1516-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCEECS.2012.6184840

Filename

6184840