New steerable antenna with controllable metamaterial

Author

Yongzhi Sun ; Zhijian Li ; Weiqiang Zhu ; Zhenhai Ji ; Qi Wang

Author_Institution

Nanjing Electron. Equip. Inst., Nanjing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 29 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

936

Lastpage

939

Abstract

In this paper, we realized a steering antenna using a type of active metamaterial with tunable refractive index in L-band. The controllable left-handed metamaterial is based on periodically printed sub-wavelength metallic resonant patterns with embedded microwave varactors. By controlling the phase properties of the radome, the antenna exhibits continuous scanning capability in a range of ±30° under very simple DC voltage control that does not exceed 10 volts. Simulation results on such structure are given, which agrees well with the theoretical analysis. This antenna has a simple structure, is very easy to configure the beam direction, and has a low cost.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; microstrip antennas; microwave metamaterials; refractive index; varactors; DC voltage control; L-band; active metamaterial; beam direction; controllable left-handed metamaterial; embedded microwave varactors; periodically printed sub-wavelength metallic resonant patterns; radome phase property; steerable antenna; tunable refractive index; Antenna feeds; Antenna radiation patterns; Metamaterials; Microwave antennas; Refractive index; Varactors; metamaterial; steering antenna; varactor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2012 42nd European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2215-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-87487-026-2

Type

conf

Filename

6459398