A reconfigurable feeding network

Author

Tawk, Youssef ; Costantine, Joseph ; Ramadan, A.H. ; Kabalan, Karim Y. ; Christodoulou, Christos G.

Author_Institution

Configurable Space Microsyst. Innovations & Applic. Center (COSMIAC), Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

1534

Lastpage

1536

Abstract

This paper presents an agile tight feeding technique for use in highly integrated front-end architectures of mobile radios. This reconfigurable technique adjusts the operation of mounted antennas without installing switching components on their radiating surfaces. The proposed feeding technique is designed to feed two radiating structures on demand. The reconfiguration is achieved by resorting to two PIN diodes that are integrated within the feeding network whose operation ranges between 4 GHz and 6 GHz. A prototype is fabricated as a proof of concept. A good agreement is found between the simulated and measured results.

Keywords

antenna feeds; mobile antennas; mobile radio; p-i-n diodes; PIN diodes; agile tight feeding technique; front-end architectures; mobile radios; mounted antennas; radiating structures; reconfigurable feeding network technique; Antenna accessories; Frequency measurement; PIN photodiodes; Ports (Computers); Switches; feeding agile networks; reconfigurable antennas; switching elements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902075

Filename

6902075