A novel reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna for IMT-A

Author

Singh, Kumar Goutam ; Bhargav, Appasani ; Mishra, G.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Birla Inst. of Technol., Ranchi, India

fYear

2014

fDate

8-10 May 2014

Firstpage

657

Lastpage

661

Abstract

In this paper a novel reconfigurable patch antenna is designed for IMT-A. The antenna has a simple design with five patches connected by four diodes. By suitably switching ON the diodes, reconfiguration in the radiation pattern is achieved while keeping the operating frequency fixed. Six different radiation patterns were achieved using the design and in all of them the band width requirement of IMT-A was achieved. The design was done using the well known EM simulation software, IE3D. The design was fabricated on RO3010 substrate with relative permeability of 10.2 and having thickness 1.28 mm and with the diodes replaced by microstrip lines for the ON state as an ideal case. Finally the fabricated designed was analysed using the vector network analyser.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; mobile communication; network analysers; p-i-n diodes; permeability; EM simulation software; IE3D; IMT-A; International Mobile Telecommunication-Advance; PIN diode; R03010 substrate; antenna radiation pattern; microstrip line; reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna; relative permeability; vector network analyser; Antennas; Computer aided software engineering; Fabrication; Microstrip; Switches; Wireless LAN; Antenna array; IE3D; IMT-A; Reconfigurable Antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ramanathapuram

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3913-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACCCT.2014.7019171

Filename

7019171