A Novel Frequency Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna for Wideband Application

Authors: Ouyang, J.; Yang, F.; Nie, Z.P.; Zhao, Z.Q.

Source: Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Volume 22, Number 10, 2008 , pp. 1403-1410(8)

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Abstract:

There is a hard nut to crack in designing wide-band microstrip antenna on a thin substrate for an application in conformal antenna. Frequency reconfigurable gives a blue print to solve it. A novel frequency reconfigurable microstrip antenna, in this paper, is proposed to design wideband antenna on a thin substrate with maintaining radiation characteristics. The proposed antenna can give bandwidth 7.0% and efficiency 90% on a thin substrate which height is only 0.01λ, when only 1.5% band can be made with a traditional microstip antenna on the same substrate.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156939308786348956

Affiliations: 1: Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 610054, P. R. China

Publication date: 2008-10-01