A Star Shaped Reconfigurable Patch Antenna

Author

Costantine, J. ; Tawk, Y. ; Christodoulou, Christos G. ; Barbin, S.B.

Author_Institution

Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

100

Abstract

This paper presents a star shaped reconfigurable microstrip antenna which exhibits frequency tuning and radiation pattern alteration for different configurations. Switches are suggested to reconfigure the antenna. The antenna is fabricated and measured and simulated results are compared. This antenna can be used in several practical applications according to each configuration. The antenna is then graph modeled and its structure is shown to be not redundant.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; graph theory; microstrip antennas; switches; frequency tuning; graph model; microstrip antenna; radiation pattern alteration; star shaped reconfigurable patch antenna; Antenna accessories; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Dielectric substrates; Frequency; Microstrip antennas; Microwave Theory and Techniques Society; Microwave antennas; Patch antennas; Switches; Graph model; Microstrip antenna; Mutli-Band Antenna; Reconfigurable Antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Integrity and High-Speed Interconnects, 2009. IMWS 2009. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on

Conference_Location

Guadalajara

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2742-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2743-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS.2009.4814917

Filename

4814917