• DocumentCode
    2881165
  • Title

    Modelling PIN diode switches in reconfigurable leaky-wave antenna design

  • Author

    Thalakotuna, D.N.P. ; Karmokar, Debabrata K. ; Esselle, Karu P. ; Heimlich, Michael ; Matekovits, Ladislau

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Macquarie Univ., North Ryde, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    7-13 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    1064
  • Lastpage
    1065
  • Abstract
    The effect of PIN diodes on the performance of a reconfigurable leaky-wave antenna (LWA) is studied. The PIN diode is modelled in three different ways. It is shown that the non-ideal behaviour of the PIN diodes changes the predicted return loss and radiation characteristics of the antenna compared to ideal switches.
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; leaky wave antennas; p-i-n diodes; LWA; PIN diode switches; radiation characteristics; reconfigurable leaky-wave antenna design; return loss; Integrated circuit modeling; Leaky wave antennas; Microstrip; PIN photodiodes; Scattering parameters; Switches;
  • 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.2013.6711192
  • Filename
    6711192