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Low cost electronic beam tilting of microstrip antennas by the use of tunable parasites
Author(s) -
Dias Mauricio Henrique Costa,
Freitas Vitor,
Vuong TanPhu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.29414
Subject(s) - microstrip antenna , microstrip , microwave , tilt (camera) , beam (structure) , antenna (radio) , patch antenna , reconfigurable antenna , engineering , physics , electrical engineering , optics , acoustics , telecommunications , antenna efficiency , mechanical engineering
In this work, parasitic elements are combined with inserted capacitances to tilt the radiated beam of a microstrip patch antenna. An application case at 2.45 GHz was considered for discussion. Realized gains up to 8 dBi and tilts within ±15° were achieved by the proposed configuration. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 55:2710–2713, 2015