Additively Manufactured Frequency/Radiation Pattern Reconfigurable Antenna Based on Monolithically Printed VO2 Switch
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Conference PaperKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionElectrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering Program
Integrated Microwave Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology (IMPACT) Lab
Integrated Microwave Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Office of the VP
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2019Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/656135
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The frequency and radiation pattern reconfigurability in antennas is usually achieved by P-I-N diodes, transistor, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), etc. based switches which are typically attached to the antennas through soldering or epoxies that leads to reliability issue. In addition, most of these switches are expensive as they are realized with complicated and costly fabrication processes. To increase the reliability and reduce the fabrication cost, additive manufacturing is a viable solution, where the switch can be simply printed at the desired place without the need of soldering, etc. In this work, we present fully printed frequency and radiation pattern reconfigurable antenna designs using a custom vanadium dioxide (VO2) ink based monolithically printed switch. In the frequency reconfigurable design, antenna operates at frequencies of 2.32-2.49 GHz and 1.93-2.03 GHz in theConference/Event name
2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)Additional Links
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8739485/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8739485