An approach for 2.4GHz wide range beam scanning leaky-wave antenna design

Author

De-zhi, Chen ; Shou-zheng, Zhu ; Shu-xin, Hu ; Gao, Jianjun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A fix frequency (2.4GHz) beam scanning leaky-wave antenna based on composite right/left-handed (CRLH) transmission line (TL) is proposed in this paper. Two Radio Frequency Micro-electromechanical System (RF MEMS) switches have been used and the signal transmitting on the TL is reversible and bidirectional. The variation range of the beam direction can be achieved from -63° to +63°. The effect of series résister of the varactors (been loaded on the TL) is studied. A sample of antenna with 38 units is made using the varactors (BB837). The simulation data is agree with the measured one.

Keywords

UHF antennas; leaky wave antennas; micromechanical devices; transmission lines; varactors; BB837; CRLH; RF MEMS; composite right/left-handed transmission line; fix frequency beam scanning leaky-wave antenna; frequency 2.4 GHz; radio frequency micro-electromechanical system switches; series résister; varactors; 2.4GHz; RF MEMS switch; beam scanning antenna; composite right/left-handed transmission line; varactors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230078

Filename

6230078