DocumentCode
1899559
Title
Design of a pneumatically controlled frequency switchable patch antenna
Author
Wu, Billy ; Okoniewski, Michal ; Hayden, Chris
Author_Institution
Schulich Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
fYear
2015
fDate
2-5 Feb. 2015
Firstpage
107
Lastpage
108
Abstract
A pneumatically controlled patch antenna with resonant frequency that can be switched to either 3.05 GHz or 5 GHz is introduced. The resonant frequency of the device is determined by the dimension of the patch that is excited. To select a particular frequency, a pneumatically-operated copper-plated swinging arm is moved to cover one of two orthogonal slots on the ground plane. The uncovered slot allows energy to be coupled from the microstrip feedline to the corresponding dimension of the patch. Simulated results from HFSS are provided.
Keywords
microstrip antennas; microstrip lines; HFSS; frequency 3.05 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; ground plane; microstrip feedline; orthogonal slots; pneumatically controlled frequency switchable patch antenna; pneumatically-operated copper-plated swinging arm; resonant frequency; Laminates; Microstrip; Patch antennas; Resonant frequency; Switches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Hong Kong
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/COMPEM.2015.7052572
Filename
7052572
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