Planar pattern reconfigurable antenna with eight switchable beams for WiMax and WLAN applications

Md Shahidul Alam; Amin Abbosh

Planar pattern reconfigurable antenna with eight switchable beams for WiMax and WLAN applications

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Author(s): Md Shahidul Alam ¹ and Amin Abbosh ¹
- Affiliations: 1: School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Source: Volume 10, Issue 10, 18 July 2016, p. 1030 – 1035
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2015.0647 , Print ISSN 1751-8725, Online ISSN 1751-8733

Received 08/10/2015, Accepted 18/01/2016, Revised 10/12/2015, Published 18/07/2016

A planar pattern reconfigurable antenna designed for IEEE 802.11 b/g standard 2.4 GHz WiMax and WLAN applications is presented. The design is realised using a uniform arrangement of eight switch-controlled tapered strips symmetrically placed around a central circular disc on the top layer of an FR4 board. The antenna has a compact circular structure with overall diameter of 0.64λ ₀ in the free space for 2.4 GHz. To control the radiation pattern of the antenna, each of the tapered strips is connected to the ground via a PIN diode. Depending on the switching status of the eight PIN diodes, the tapered strips work in grounded or open-ended mode and thus the antenna offers eight switchable patterns. To validate the design, the antenna is prototyped and its performance is verified in a far-field anechoic chamber. The simulated and measured results prove the antenna's reconfigurability of the main beam in eight directions with 45° steps in the azimuth plane and a vertical tilting angle of 36°. Over the operating band 2.35–2.61 GHz, the antenna has a stable gain of around 4.5 dBi, and front-to-back ratio of more than 18 dB. Compared with recent designs, this antenna is more compact, has larger beam deflection off the boresight and more beam steering states.

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