Efficient electromagnetic characterization of a 1D reconfigurable periodic configuration in microstrip technology

Author

Matekovits, L. ; Bercigli, M. ; Guidi, R.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron. e Telecomun., Politec. di Torino, Torino, Italy

fYear

2012

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

169

Abstract

Application of the Synthetic Function eXpansion (SFX) algorithm to the analysis of active, reconfigurable 1D structures is presented. The reference structure consists of a passive configuration of parallel patches periodically loading a microstrip line. The active counterpart is obtained by inserting a pair of 2 switches to the two ends of each patch. The matching and radiation characteristics of a 24-element arrays for different lateral shifts of the patches demonstrates possibility of controlling the aforementioned parameters.

Keywords

microstrip antenna arrays; microstrip lines; numerical analysis; optimisation; 1D reconfigurable periodic configuration; 24-element arrays; SFX algorithm; different lateral shifts; efficient electromagnetic characterization; matching characteristics; microstrip line; microstrip technology; numerical simulations; optimization; parallel patch passive configuration; radiation characteristics; switches; synthetic function expansion algorithm; Electromagnetics; Geometry; Microstrip; Moment methods; Optimization; Periodic structures; Surface impedance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0333-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEAA.2012.6328613

Filename

6328613