A pattern-reconfigurable parasitic patch antenna using BAR and HPND PIN Diode

Author

Sabapathy, T. ; Ahmad, R.B. ; Jusoh, M. ; Kamarudin, Muhammad Ramlee ; Alomainy, Akram

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Univ. Malaysia Perlis, Arau, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

3444

Lastpage

3445

Abstract

A pattern reconfigurable parasitic patch antenna using BAR and HPND PIN Diode is proposed. With parasitic element and mutual coupling technique, the presented antenna achieved beam switching at five phi of 0°, 45°, 135°, 225° and 315°. This is realized by four parasitic element surrounded a driven element. Each of the parasitic is shorted to the ground via a shorting pin. The ON and OFF state condition is control by the PIN Diode switch that embed to each parasitic element. This research studies the performance of different PIN Diode of BAR-5002v and HPND-4005 in realizing the beam switching application.

Keywords

microstrip antennas; p-i-n diodes; BAR-5002v; HPND-4005; OFF state condition; ON state condition; PIN diode switch; beam switching application; driven element; mutual coupling technique; parasitic element; pattern-reconfigurable parasitic patch antenna; shorting pin; Antennas; Beam steering; Gain; Mutual coupling; PIN photodiodes; Switches; BAR PIN Diode; HPND PIN Diode; beam switching; parasitic patch antenna; pattern switching;

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.2014.6902569

Filename

6902569