Shynu, S V; Gijo,Augustin; Aanandan,C K; Mohanan, P; Vasudevan, K(Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2006)
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Abstract:
The design of a compact, single feed, dual frequency
dual polarized and electronically reconfigurable microstrip antenna is
presented in this paper. A square patch loaded with a hexagonal slot
having extended slot arms constitutes the fundamental structure of
the antenna. The tuning of the two resonant frequencies is realized by
varying the effective electrical length of the slot arms by embedding
varactor diodes across the slots. A high tuning range of 34.43%
(1.037–1.394 GHz) and 9.27% (1.359–1.485 GHz) is achieved for the
two operating frequencies respectively, when the bias voltage is varied
from 0 to −30 V. The salient feature of this design is that it uses no
matching networks even though the resonant frequencies are tuned in
a wide range with good matching below −10 dB. The antenna has an
added advantage of size reduction up to 80.11% and 65.69% for the two
operating frequencies compared to conventional rectangular patches.
Shynu, S V; Vasudevan, K(Cochin University of Science & Technology, October , 2006)
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Abstract:
In this work,we investigate novel designs of compact electronically reconfigurable dual frequency microstrip antennas with a single feed,operating mainly in L-band,without using any matching networks and complicated biasing circuitry.These antennas have been designed to operate in very popular frequency range where a great number of wireless communication applications exist.Efforts were carried out to introduce a successful,low cost reconfigurable dual-frequency microstrip antenna design to the wireless and radio frequency design community.
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Department of Electronics,
Cochin University of Science and Technology