Effects of PIN diode switches on the performance of reconfigurable slot-ring antenna

Author

Shirazi, Mahmoud ; Tianjiao Li ; Xun Gong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The effect of PIN diode switches on the performance of reconfigurable slot-ring antenna is studied and presented. An equivalent circuit is used to model the ON and OFF states of the switches in the antenna structure. Two different antennas with ideal switches and real switches are fabricated and measured. Measured results show that the PIN diode switches have some loading effects on the antenna. Parametric analysis of each circuit element is also simulated and provided in this paper. Numerical simulations using HFSS is verified by measurements.

Keywords

equivalent circuits; p-i-n diodes; slot antennas; HFSS; PIN diode switches; circuit element; equivalent circuit; numerical simulations; parametric analysis; reconfigurable slot-ring antenna; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Capacitance; Electrical resistance measurement; Resistance; Switches; TV; PIN diode equivalent circuit model; PIN diodes; reconfigurable antennas; slot-ring antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2015 IEEE 16th Annual

Conference_Location

Cocoa Beach, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2015.7120388

Filename

7120388