Reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas for future wireless systems

Chen, Shulin

Reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas for future wireless systems

Chen, Shulin

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Chen, Shulin
dc.date.accessioned	2019-11-28T22:47:58Z
dc.date.available	2019-11-28T22:47:58Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/137064
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	Reconfigurable antennas (RAs), which have agilities in their frequency and radiation characteristics, are emerging as one of the key enabling components for wireless systems. Compared with single-function legacy antennas, RAs can greatly enhance the system functionalities and flexibilities. In this dissertation, on the basis of state-of-the-art of RAs, a thorough investigation, development, and implementation are conducted on reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas to fully exploit and extend the benefits of RAs. In order to enable advanced technologies for reconfigurable resonant antennas, challenging and promising gaps associated with novel designs are addressed on polarization-reconfigurable antenna, pattern-reconfigurable antenna, as well as combined polarization- and pattern-reconfigurable antenna. In particular, a reconfigurable center-fed shorting-via loaded patch antenna is designed that can switch among four linear polarizations at a 45° rotation. Furthermore, by reconfiguring parasitic striplines and bottom reflecting metal pieces around a radiating dipole, five switchable beams including broadside, titled, and endfire directions, are achieved. Finally, a cavity-backed proximity-coupled patch antenna operating at 11 GHz is designed and reconfigured to switch among three linear polarizations, and its main beam can be steered to about +20°, 0°, -20° with a measured gain variation between 7.2 and 8.1 dBi for each polarization. As one of the most widely used types of non-resonant antennas, leaky-wave antennas (LWAs) serially leak power through open traveling-wave structures, and they generally have inherent beam scanning capability by sweeping the source frequency. One main challenge in LWAs is to realize a wide-angle continuous circular-polarization (CP) beam scan. A novel benzene-ring-shaped slot-loaded CP substrate-integrated-waveguide LWA with partially reflecting wall vias is developed herein to scan a CP beam from -42.8° to +54.3° with a gain variation of only 3.3 dBic. Moreover, a polarization reconfigurable LWA that can switch between its circular-polarization and linear-polarization states is investigated and accomplished to further improve the diversity and functionality delivered by the LWA system. Finally, to eliminate the frequency-dependant beam scanning behaviour, a reconfigurable composite right/left-handed (CRLH) LWA is developed that facilitates fixed-frequency continuous beam scanning over a wide operational frequency band. Since the wireless systems are evolving towards multi-functionality to enable fast, secure, and reliable connections, it is believed that the developed reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas can find wide applications in current and beyond wireless systems.	en_AU
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
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dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	reconfigurable antenna
dc.subject	wireless system
dc.subject	resonant antenna
dc.subject	leaky-wave antenna
dc.subject	traveling-wave
dc.subject	patch antenna
dc.subject	parasitic element
dc.subject	circular polarization
dc.subject	linear polarization
dc.subject	beam scanning
dc.subject	substrate-integrated waveguide
dc.subject	composite right/left-handed
dc.title	Reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas for future wireless systems	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis	en_AU
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs), which have agilities in their frequency and radiation characteristics, are emerging as one of the key enabling components for wireless systems. Compared with single-function legacy antennas, RAs can greatly enhance the system functionalities and flexibilities. In this dissertation, on the basis of state-of-the-art of RAs, a thorough investigation, development, and implementation are conducted on reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas to fully exploit and extend the benefits of RAs. In order to enable advanced technologies for reconfigurable resonant antennas, challenging and promising gaps associated with novel designs are addressed on polarization-reconfigurable antenna, pattern-reconfigurable antenna, as well as combined polarization- and pattern-reconfigurable antenna. In particular, a reconfigurable center-fed shorting-via loaded patch antenna is designed that can switch among four linear polarizations at a 45° rotation. Furthermore, by reconfiguring parasitic striplines and bottom reflecting metal pieces around a radiating dipole, five switchable beams including broadside, titled, and endfire directions, are achieved. Finally, a cavity-backed proximity-coupled patch antenna operating at 11 GHz is designed and reconfigured to switch among three linear polarizations, and its main beam can be steered to about +20°, 0°, -20° with a measured gain variation between 7.2 and 8.1 dBi for each polarization. As one of the most widely used types of non-resonant antennas, leaky-wave antennas (LWAs) serially leak power through open traveling-wave structures, and they generally have inherent beam scanning capability by sweeping the source frequency. One main challenge in LWAs is to realize a wide-angle continuous circular-polarization (CP) beam scan. A novel benzene-ring-shaped slot-loaded CP substrate-integrated-waveguide LWA with partially reflecting wall vias is developed herein to scan a CP beam from -42.8° to +54.3° with a gain variation of only 3.3 dBic. Moreover, a polarization reconfigurable LWA that can switch between its circular-polarization and linear-polarization states is investigated and accomplished to further improve the diversity and functionality delivered by the LWA system. Finally, to eliminate the frequency-dependant beam scanning behaviour, a reconfigurable composite right/left-handed (CRLH) LWA is developed that facilitates fixed-frequency continuous beam scanning over a wide operational frequency band. Since the wireless systems are evolving towards multi-functionality to enable fast, secure, and reliable connections, it is believed that the developed reconfigurable resonant and leaky-wave antennas can find wide applications in current and beyond wireless systems.

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