• DocumentCode
    3677132
  • Title

    Novel reconfigurable antennas using Liquid Crystals Elastomers

  • Author

    John Gibson;Xueli Liu;Stavros V. Georgakopoulos;Taylor Ware;Jeong Jae Wie;Timothy J. White

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2297
  • Lastpage
    2298
  • Abstract
    In this paper, normal and axial mode reconfigurable antennas are considered. Shape memory polymer actuators called Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) are used to dynamically change antennas. Specifically, a controlled heat source is utilized to the geometry of antennas. The proposed antennas were fabricated to fixed states to allow measurements to be performed and illustrate the antenna reconfigurability between normal and axial mode. Measurements are compared with simulations.
  • Keywords
    "Helical antennas","Antenna measurements","Dipole antennas","Polymers","Shape","Heating"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2015.7305537
  • Filename
    7305537
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3677132