Fully integrated reconfigurable antenna steered by magnetic field

Author

Kim, Yongsung ; Bang, Yong-Seung ; Kim, Namgon ; Kim, Jung-Mu ; Kwon, Youngwoo ; Kim, Yong-Kweon

Author_Institution

Nano Fabrication Group, Samsung Adv. Inst. of Technol., Yongin, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

795

Lastpage

798

Abstract

This paper presents a single antenna platform mechanically steered by magnetic force in which MMIC (Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit) and capacitors are fully integrated. The RF source, MMIC is vertically connected to the antenna plate, not on the BCB spring, so the antenna responses are not distorted with various tilting angles. A single MMIC is flip-chip bonded to increase productivity and reduce process time. The maximum deflection angles are 18.3Â° (H-plane) and 17.7Â° (E-plane) respectively and the tilting angles are proportional to the applied magnetic fields. RF beam patterns are obtained with various scanning angles. The scanning angle are -14Â°, 0Â°, +18Â° (H-plane), -18Â°, -12Â°, 0Â°, +12Â°, +16Â° (E-plane).

Keywords

MMIC; antenna radiation patterns; capacitors; magnetic fields; MMIC; RF beam patterns; RF source; antenna plate; capacitors; flip chip bonding; integrated fully reconfigurable antenna; magnetic fields; monolithic microwave integrated circuit; single antenna platform; Bonding; Capacitors; MMICs; Magnetic fields; Magnetic forces; Microwave antennas; Microwave integrated circuits; Monolithic integrated circuits; Radio frequency; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2010 IEEE 23rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wanchai, Hong Kong

ISSN

1084-6999

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5761-8

Electronic_ISBN

1084-6999

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442288

Filename

5442288