• DocumentCode
    1839143
  • Title

    Fabry-Perót cavity antenna with beam switching

  • Author

    Bo Zhu ; Yijun Feng ; Zhi Ning Chen ; See, Terence Shie Ping

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    27-29 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    261
  • Lastpage
    262
  • Abstract
    A Fabry-Perót cavity (FPC) antenna is presented for beam switching. The antenna consists of a partially reflective sheet (PRS) formed by a finite-sized periodic array of metal patches printed onto a grounded dielectric substrate and a feeding microstrip patch embedded in the substrate. The proposed antenna achieves beam switching within an angle of ±15° with consistent gain as the antenna is excited at varying positions in the cavity. The study shows that the fully dielectric-integrated FPC antennas are capable of providing the high gain and beam switching with low profile, and mechanical robustness.
  • Keywords
    dielectric devices; microstrip antenna arrays; reflector antenna feeds; Fabry-Perót cavity antenna; PRS; beam switching; dielectric-integrated FPC antenna; feeding microstrip patch; finite-sized periodic array; grounded dielectric substrate; mechanical robustness; metal patch printing; partially reflective sheet; Cavity resonators; Dielectric substrates; Microstrip; Reflector antennas; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation (APCAP), 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Singapore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0666-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCAP.2012.6333237
  • Filename
    6333237