3 Radiation Pattern Agility of Printed Antennas

Dr. Amit Bage and Surendra Kumar Gupta

National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur

Contents

3.1     Introduction

3.2     Types of Reconfigurable Antennas

3.3     Microwave RF Switches

3.3.1     PIN Diode Switches

3.3.2     Varactor Diode

3.3.3     Microelectromechanical Systems

3.4     PIN Diode-Based Reconfigurable Patch Antenna for Pattern Agility

3.5     Conclusion

References

3.1   Introduction

In modern microwave and millimeter-wave communication systems, reconfigurable antennas play an important role in both academics and industry. The reconfigurable antennas increase the spectrum utilization by adjusting their frequency as well as radiation pattern characteristics according to the system ...

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