A SPST PIN switch for C-band dual-band antenna applications

Author

Li, Huiyu ; Yue, Xiping ; Hua, Guang ; Zhou, Houxing ; Hong, Wei

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ. Nanjing 210096, Nanjing, China

Volume

4

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, the design of a C-band PIN diode switch for dual-band antenna application is presented. The purpose of this design is to meet the requirement that the antenna can operate at two different frequencies by turning on and off it. When the PIN diode is reverse biased, the switch is off and the antenna operates at 3.6GHz. When the PIN diode is forward biased, the switch is on and the antenna operates at 2.4GHz. The measured impedance bandwidth (return loss<;-10dB) is 550 MHz (2-2.55GHz) and 1.22GHz (3.1-4.32GHz) for 2.4GHz and 3.6GHz, which is very close to the simulation results. At the mean time, the switch barely has effect on the radiation patterns of the antenna.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; microwave antennas; multifrequency antennas; p-i-n diodes; switches; C-band PIN diode switch; C-band dual-band antenna application; SPST PIN switch; antenna radiation pattern; bandwidth 1.22 GHz; bandwidth 550 MHz; frequency 2 GHz to 2.55 GHz; frequency 3.1 GHz to 4.32 GHz; impedance bandwidth; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Impedance; Loss measurement; PIN photodiodes; Radio frequency; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology (ICMMT), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2184-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2012.6230305

Filename

6230305