Design of reconfigurable Patch Antenna with a Switchable V-Slot

Author

Al-maznaee, Tariq ; Abd-El-Raouf, Hany E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

fYear

2007

fDate

4-6 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper we present the design of a novel patch antenna with switchable V-slot (PASVS) that resonates at two different frequencies. The antenna operates at the lower frequency when the switch is OFF and at the higher frequency when the switch is ON. This antenna is designed for special applictions which need small frequency ratio. The different effects of the feeding position, the slot location, and the slot length are invetigated in this paper. This investigation has been used to optimize the design of the PASVS antenna in terms of the return loss (RL), the bandwidth, the gain, and the required frequency ratio.

Keywords

antenna feeds; microstrip antennas; slot antennas; antenna design; feeding position; reconfigurable patch antenna; slot location; small frequency ratio; switchable V-slot; Antenna feeds; Arm; Bandwidth; Communication switching; Frequency; P-i-n diodes; Patch antennas; Probes; Slot antennas; Switches; Copolarization; Crosspolarization; Reconfigurable antenna; frequency ratio; switchable slot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics, 2007. APACE 2007. Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Melaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1434-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1435-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APACE.2007.4603941

Filename

4603941