Anisotropic carbon fiber nanocomposites for mechanically reconfigurable antenna applications

Author

Mehdipour, Aidin ; Denidni, Tayeb A. ; Sebak, Abdel Razik ; Trueman, Christopher W. ; Rosca, Iosif D. ; Hoa, Suong V.

Author_Institution

Centre-Energie, Mater. et Telecommun., Inst. Nat. de la Rech. Sci. (INRS), Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

384

Lastpage

385

Abstract

We demonstrate the potential use of reinforced continuous carbon fiber composite (RCCFC) material for building reconfigurable antennas. The frequency and polarization agility characteristics of the proposed antennas are obtained by the rotation of the antenna ground plane which is made of anisotropic conductive RCCFC material. The anisotropic RCCFC ground plane provides a mode filter mechanism in the proposed antennas. The mechanical and chemical strength of RCCFC materials along with the promising radiation characteristics of the RCCFC antennas make the proposed composite antenna very suitable for radio cognitive and military applications.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; carbon fibre reinforced composites; filters; mechanical strength; anisotropic carbon fiber nanocomposites; anisotropic conductive RCCFC material; antenna ground plane; chemical strength; composite antenna; frequency agility characteristics; mechanical strength; mechanically reconfigurable antenna applications; military applications; mode filter mechanism; polarization agility characteristics; radiation characteristics; radio cognitive applications; reinforced continuous carbon fiber composite material; Antennas; Carbon; Copper; Optical fiber polarization; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6710853

Filename

6710853