Low cost electronically steerable radiator and reflector antenna for 2.4 GHz WLAN

Author

Ren, Deming ; Zhang, Liang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Astronaut., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2012

fDate

27-30 May 2012

Firstpage

107

Lastpage

110

Abstract

In this work a low cost electronically steerable radiator and reflector array (ESRRA) antenna designed for 2.4 GHz WiFi band is proposed. The antenna composed is formed by integrating a monopole antenna with symmetrical-anchor shaped multiple active frequency selective surface (AFSS) units, to produce omnidirectional sweeping range of entire azimuth plane. The AFSS array loaded with varactors are biased by a 0-30 V continuously variable voltage. The mechanism is discussed and validated in this work. The radiating direction is continuously tunable. The antenna system is simulated and fabricated.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; array signal processing; frequency selective surfaces; monopole antenna arrays; omnidirectional antennas; reflector antennas; varactors; wireless LAN; AFSS array; AFSS unit; ESRRA antenna; WLAN; WiFi band; antenna design; antenna system; azimuth plane; beamforming; frequency 2.4 GHz; low cost electronically steerable radiator and reflector array; monopole antenna; omnidirectional sweeping range; radiating direction; reflector antenna; symmetrical-anchor shaped multiple active frequency selective surface unit; varactor; variable voltage; voltage 0 V to 30 V; Antenna arrays; Arrays; Inductors; Reflector antennas; Resonant frequency; Varactors; AFSS; beam-forming; electronically steerable; smart antenna; varactors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Millimeter Waves (GSMM), 2012 5th Global Symposium on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1302-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GSMM.2012.6313985

Filename

6313985