A Four-Arm Circularly Polarized High-Gain High-Tilt Beam Curl Antenna for Beam Steering Applications

This article presents the design of a multipattern antenna with pattern switching for vehicular communications. The proposed antenna has four triangular patches integrated onto a split square ring (SR) resonator to operate at two distinct frequencies, viz. 2.4 and 3.5 GHz. The proposed antenna is designed with a view to enhancing the link reliability of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), WiMax, and vehicle to vehicle communication frequencies. Each triangular patch is separately excited using a microstrip line feed to enable beam steering. The ground plane of the antenna is embedded with two SR slots to improve the bandwidth and radiation performance. Further gain enhancement is achieved by loading the antenna with a plane reflector located at a distance of 20 mm from the antenna's ground surface. In reality, this reflector is realized using the vehicle's roof which provides gain enhancement up to 5.2 dBi at 2.4 GHz and 4 dBi at 3.5 GHz. By exciting single to multiple ports sequentially 16 different radiation patterns are obtained, which provides high‐gain omnidirectional coverage. The prototype antenna is fabricated and the simulation results are verified using experimental measurements. From the results, it is evident that the proposed antenna is suitable for vehicular communication applications.

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Design of a 16‐beam pattern‐reconfigurable antenna for vehicular environment

Ashvanth¹,

Partibane²,

Alsath³

et al. 2020

“…Recently, several antennas with beam tilt have been proposed . In Reference , an approach based on integrated metamaterial loading was proposed for use in antenna design to realize beam tilt in a specific direction.…”

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“…However, the resulting beam split in the tilt direction, and the antenna structure is too large to be integrated. In Reference , the four arms of a curl antenna were arranged symmetrically in a plane. When each of the arms was fed, a tilted beam was generated.…”

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A novel dual‐mode patch antenna with pattern diversity and beam‐tilting for aircraft applications

Yan

Jiao

Zhang

2020

A dual‐mode patch antenna with pattern diversity that is beam‐tilted in a specific direction is presented. By placing a rectangular metal cavity below the circular patch and simultaneously shorting one end of the patch, the antenna produces tilted beams for dual‐mode radiation patterns. One pattern is excited using a proximity‐fed L‐shaped probe that generates a beam with a tilt angle of 25° from the broadside direction. The second pattern is excited using a coplanar waveguide (CPW)‐based feeding network that generates two beams with a tilt angle of θmax = ±45° in the directions of ϕmax = 70° and − 70°. The tilt angle can be varied by adjusting the metal cavity's length. A prototype antenna for operation at 2.38 GHz was fabricated and measured. The results indicate that the overlapped bandwidth (|S11| < −10 dB) for the two patterns is 330 MHz (2.22‐2.55 GHz). The measured peak gains for the two patterns are 6.74‐6.94 dBi and 5.82‐6.74 dBi, respectively. The isolation between the two ports is 18 dB.

Gain enhanced multipattern reconfigurable antenna for vehicular communications

Ashvanth¹,

Partibane²,

Alsath³

et al. 2020

This article presents the design and implementation of a high-gain tunable dual-band pattern reconfigurable antenna for vehicular communications. The proposed antenna consists of a slotted patch loaded with a double-side FSS acting as superstrate. The proposed slotted antenna operates at 2.45 and 3.5 GHz and the frequency tuning over the dual-band is accomplished by employing a varactor diode for tuning the center frequency from 2.41 to 2.62 GHz and from 3.38 to 3.65 GHz at lower and upper frequency bands, respectively. To obtain pattern reconfiguration, the slotted patch is divided into four regions by using two diagonal lines of vias. By properly choosing the excitation port combinations, 14 different radiation patterns are realized with a maximum realized gain of 8.4 and 7.9 dB. Further enhancement of gain is achieved using frequency-selective surface (FSS) screens which act as a partially reflecting surface. The unique feature of this design is to provide reflection coefficient with high reflectivity in two predetermined frequency ranges. The prototype antenna is fabricated and the measurement results are reported. The experimental results show that the prototype antenna with FSS offers tunable dualband with beam reconfigurable properties. K E Y W O R D Sfrequency-selective surface, multipattern antenna, pattern reconfiguration