A Wideband Reconfigurable Antenna with 360° Beam Steering for 802.11ac WLAN Applications

Yang, Y; Zhu, X

A Wideband Reconfigurable Antenna with 360° Beam Steering for 802.11ac WLAN Applications

Yang, Y

Zhu, X

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Citation:: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2018, 66 (2), pp. 600 - 608
Issue Date:: 2018-02-01

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dc.contributor.author	Yang, Y https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7439-2156	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zhu, X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5814-394X	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-02-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2018, 66 (2), pp. 600 - 608	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0018-926X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123363
dc.description.abstract	© 1963-2012 IEEE. A novel 360° beam steering patch antenna with parasitic elements is presented in this paper. The designed antenna consists of a radiating patch and six parasitic elements, each of which is connected through a group of shorting vias controlled by p-i-n diode switches. By switching on the desired groups of the shorting vias, the electric field distribution inside substrate cavity appears at the desired beam direction. Rotationally switching on the groups of the shorting vias, the performance of 360° beam scanning is realized. To further understand operating mechanism, the antenna is modeled with equivalent circuit in terms of the on and off status of a sector of the antenna, which can be used as a design guide for shorting-vias-controlled reconfigurable microstrip patch antennas. The fabricated antenna achieves a bandwidth of 14.5%, a peak gain of 10 dBi, and the efficiency of 80.5%. The achieved beamwidths are 42° and 97° in azimuth and elevation planes, respectively. With an ability of being steered around zenith axis at six directions, the scanned beam range covers the entire 360°. The physical dimension is only 2.5 λg for the size and 0.5λg for the profile. This antenna operates from 5.1 to 5.9 GHz and has significant meaning in the IEEE 802.11ac wireless local area network applications due to its capabilities of generating 360° steered beams.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/TAP.2017.2784438	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.classification	Networking & Telecommunications	en_US
dc.title	A Wideband Reconfigurable Antenna with 360° Beam Steering for 802.11ac WLAN Applications	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	66	en_US
utslib.for	0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	1005 Communications Technologies	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Electrical and Data Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - GBDTC - Global Big Data Technologies
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
pubs.issue	2	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	66	en_US

Abstract:

© 1963-2012 IEEE. A novel 360° beam steering patch antenna with parasitic elements is presented in this paper. The designed antenna consists of a radiating patch and six parasitic elements, each of which is connected through a group of shorting vias controlled by p-i-n diode switches. By switching on the desired groups of the shorting vias, the electric field distribution inside substrate cavity appears at the desired beam direction. Rotationally switching on the groups of the shorting vias, the performance of 360° beam scanning is realized. To further understand operating mechanism, the antenna is modeled with equivalent circuit in terms of the on and off status of a sector of the antenna, which can be used as a design guide for shorting-vias-controlled reconfigurable microstrip patch antennas. The fabricated antenna achieves a bandwidth of 14.5%, a peak gain of 10 dBi, and the efficiency of 80.5%. The achieved beamwidths are 42° and 97° in azimuth and elevation planes, respectively. With an ability of being steered around zenith axis at six directions, the scanned beam range covers the entire 360°. The physical dimension is only 2.5 λg for the size and 0.5λg for the profile. This antenna operates from 5.1 to 5.9 GHz and has significant meaning in the IEEE 802.11ac wireless local area network applications due to its capabilities of generating 360° steered beams.

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