Design and harmonic balance analysis of a wideband planar antenna having reconfigurable omnidirectional and directional patterns

Author

Patron, Damiano ; Daryoush, Afshin S. ; Dandekar, Kapil R. ; Piazza, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

7-9 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper we discuss a novel reconfigurable antenna equipped using PIN diodes and analyze the harmonic distortions that may be generated. The design herein described is for a novel planar antenna that can generate omnidirectional and directional radiation patterns by switching between microstrip elements. Based on the equivalent circuit model of the antenna, we have performed a harmonic balance circuit simulation to consider channel distortion due to employment of these reconfigurable antennas as part of a 2×2 MIMO system over broad bandwidth communication channel.

Keywords

MIMO communication; directive antennas; equivalent circuits; microstrip antenna arrays; omnidirectional antennas; p-i-n diodes; planar antenna arrays; MIMO system; PIN diode; broad bandwidth communication channel; equivalent circuit model; harmonic balance analysis; harmonic balance circuit; harmonic distortion; microstrip element; reconfigurable antenna; reconfigurable omnidirectional pattern; wideband planar antenna; Capacitance; MIMO; Antennas and Arrays; Cognitive Radios; MIMO; Ultra-Wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2013 IEEE 14th Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5536-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5535-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2013.6572770

Filename

6572770