Conformal Frequency Reconfigurable Microstrip Antenna on a Thin Substrate for Wide-Band Applications

Jun Ouyang Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China

Feng Yang Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China

Shiwen Yang Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China

Zaiping Nie Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China

Zhiqing Zhao Department of Microwave Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China

Abstract

There is a fundamental limit in designing wide-band microstrip antennas on a thin substrate. Frequency reconfigurable structures provide a solution to this problem. A novel conformal frequency reconfigurable microstrip antenna is introduced in this article. The frequency range of 10-dB return loss of the proposed antenna is six times more than that of a corresponding simple rectangular microstrip antenna with the same substrate. Note that the proposed antenna has efficiency of more than 70% at all the in-band frequencies.

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