Switchless Reconfigurable Antenna with 360° Steering

Adam Narbudowicz; Max J. Ammann; Dirk Heberling

doi:10.1109/LAWP.2016.2524199

Switchless Reconfigurable Antenna with 360° Steering

Adam Narbudowicz, Max J. Ammann, Dirk Heberling

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

A novel reconfigurable antenna capable of rotating a bidirectional pattern by 360° in azimuth is proposed. The antenna has two ports, no aperture switching components, and offers a more compact solution than an array. It provides a reconfigurable pattern in the band 2.525-2.595 GHz and a fixed omnidirectional pattern from 2.235 to 2.725 GHz. The measured gains for four investigated configurations are between 2.1 and 3.1 dBi with total efficiencies between 80% and 89%. The antenna is intended to operate with software defined radio [digital beamforming or multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)], where the potential of pattern generation using the dual-port antenna can be fully exploited. It offers multiuser pattern reconfiguration at low cost within a limited volume.

Original language	English
Article number	7396951
Pages (from-to)	1689-1692
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWP.2016.2524199
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

Adaptive antenna
Smart antenna
beamsteering
digital beamforming
reconfigurable antenna

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Switchless Reconfigurable Antenna with 360° Steering

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