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Design of pattern-reconfigurable circularly polarized unidirectional antenna based on quasi-radiator for ISM
Philip Arthur1, Mubarak Sani Ellis1, Abdul-Rahman Ahmed1
1Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana.
Abstract:
A pattern-reconfigurable circularly polarized antenna for 2.45 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band applications is designed in this work. The proposed antenna consists of a slotted-stepped monopole connected to a rectangular ground plane via a shorting side-stub. This converts the omnidirectional radiation pattern of the antenna into stable unidirectional radiation. To dynamically steer the realized pattern, two switchable RF PIN diodes are jointly incorporated into the side-stubs to achieve symmetrical radiations in specific operating modes. In this way, the radiation patterns can be simultaneously tuned in the directions by the simple switching of the PIN diodes ON and OFF. The fabricated prototype achieves an smaller than -10dB within the 3dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth with stable far-field patterns. The antenna maintains a low-profile and compact size of which makes it suitable for body-centric wireless communication (BWC) and personal wireless area networks.
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