Reconfigurable MEMS Antennas

Author

Haridas, Nakul ; Erdogan, Ahmet T. ; Arslan, Tughrul ; Walton, Anthony J. ; Smith, Stewart ; Stevenson, Tom ; Dunare, Camelia ; Gundlach, Alan ; Terry, Jon ; Argyrakis, Petros ; Tierney, Kevin ; Ross, Alan ; Hara, Tony O.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng. & Electron., Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

fYear

2008

fDate

22-25 June 2008

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

154

Abstract

This paper reviews the work carried out in the field of reconfigurable antennas, and in specific the reconfigurable MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) antennas. The application of MEMS to antennas is studied and compared with the various implementations such as pattern reconfigurable MEMS antennas, mechanically actuated MEMS antennas, capacitive MEMS antennas and MEMS phased array antennas, as reported by research groups in the field. Finally a design is described, driven by the objectives of low power, high efficiency, linear operation and real time frequency and space diversity reconfiguration.

Keywords

antenna phased arrays; micromechanical devices; MEMS phased array antennas; capacitive MEMS antennas; mechanically actuated MEMS antennas; pattern reconfigurable MEMS antennas; real time frequency reconfiguration; space diversity reconfiguration; Adaptive arrays; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Frequency; Micromechanical devices; Microswitches; Performance loss; Phased arrays; Solid state circuit design; Switches; MEMS Antennas; MEMS Applications; Reconfigurable Antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 2008. AHS '08. NASA/ESA Conference on

Conference_Location

Noordwijk

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3166-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AHS.2008.28

Filename

4584267