Design of a novel planar Bulter matrix beamformer with two-axis beam-switching capability

Author

Hong, Wanchu ; Lin, Che-Wei ; Lin, Yu-De ; Kitazawa, Toshihide

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., National Changhua Univ. of Educ., Taiwan

Volume

5

fYear

2005

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2005

Abstract

By employing one microstrip patch array and one single-conductor microstrip leaky-wave array on the same substrate, a novel planar Bulter matrix beam-forming array that can switch beams in two orthogonal axes is proposed in this paper. Numerical simulation and experimental results are shown to demonstrate its two-axis beam-switching capability. With its printed circuit form, it is very suitable for integration into modern wireless communication systems with smart antenna techniques.

Keywords

array signal processing; beam steering; leaky wave antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; planar antenna arrays; microstrip patch array; planar Bulter matrix beamformer; printed circuit form; single-conductor microstrip leaky-wave array; smart antenna techniques; two-axis beam-switching capability; wireless communication systems; Antenna arrays; Antenna radiation patterns; Antenna theory; Communication switching; Leaky wave antennas; Microstrip antenna arrays; Patch antennas; Switches; Transmission line matrix methods; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings, 2005. APMC 2005. Asia-Pacific Conference Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9433-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2005.1606991

Filename

1606991