Hardwired Design of Ultra-Wideband Reconfigurable MEMS Antenna

Author

Kim, Hyungrak ; Chung, David ; Anagnostou, Dimitrios E. ; Papapolymerou, John

Author_Institution

Georgia Tech., Atlanta

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a design of an ultra-wideband reconfigurable RF-MEMS antenna with multi-functional transition is shown. By the analysis of equivalent circuit model, it is validated that the multi-functional transition in the proposed antenna operates as both a wideband transition of a tapered slot antenna (TSA) and a wideband slot antenna. Therefore, the proposed antenna can provide ultra-wideband reconfigurable characteristics with both broadside and endfire directions.

Keywords

micromechanical devices; slot antennas; ultra wideband antennas; broadside direction; endfire direction; equivalent circuit; hardwired design; multifunctional transition; tapered slot antenna; ultra wideband reconfigurable MEMS antenna; wideband slot antenna; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Coplanar waveguides; Micromechanical devices; Microstrip antennas; Radiofrequency microelectromechanical systems; Switches; USA Councils; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394007

Filename

4394007