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Frequency Reconfigurable Quasi-Yagi Antenna with a Novel Balun Loading Four PIN Diodes

  • Peng Xie , Guang-Ming Wang EMAIL logo , Hai-Peng Li , Tong Wen and Xiangxin Kong
Published/Copyright: April 4, 2018
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Frequenz
From the journal Frequenz Volume 72 Issue 5-6

Abstract

A novel frequency reconfigurable Quasi-Yagi antenna is proposed. The antenna has two dipoles on different layers of the substrate and they are fed by two coplanar striplines. Four PIN diodes, loading inside the coplanar striplines, are used as the switches. By switching the states of the four diodes, the antenna can work in three modes with different working bands around 3.5 GHz (cover the band of WiMAX), 5.2 GHz (cover the band of WLAN) and 7 GHz respectively. In addition, the working bands can be independently tuned by adjusting several parameters of the antenna. A prototype antenna was fabricated and tested. Good agreement between the simulation and the measurement is achieved. The results prove that the antenna can realize frequency reconfiguration effectively while maintaining the pattern characteristic of Yagi antenna at all frequency.

Keywords: reconfigurable antenna; Quasi-Yagi antenna; frequency tunable; microstrip antenna; PIN diodes

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Received: 2016-12-21
Published Online: 2018-4-4
Published in Print: 2018-4-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/freq-2016-0372
Keywords for this article
reconfigurable antenna; Quasi-Yagi antenna; frequency tunable; microstrip antenna; PIN diodes

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  3. Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna for Deca-Band 5 G/LTE/WWAN Mobile Terminal Applications
  4. Printed Antenna Array with Flat-Top Radiation Pattern
  5. CPW-fed Circularly Polarized Slot Antenna with Small Gap and Stick-shaped Shorted Strip for UHF FRID Readers
  6. Frequency Reconfigurable Quasi-Yagi Antenna with a Novel Balun Loading Four PIN Diodes
  7. Analysis and Optimization of Conformal Patch Excited Wideband DRA of Several Shapes
  8. Synthesis of Conformal Phased Antenna Arrays With A Novel Multiobjective Invasive Weed Optimization Algorithm
  9. Stopband-Extended and Size-Miniaturized Low-Pass Filter Based on Interdigital Capacitor Loaded Hairpin Resonator with Four Transmission Zeros
  10. Electronically Reconfigurable Varactor-Loaded HMSIW Bandpass Filter
  11. Differential BPFs with Multiple Transmission Zeros Based on Terminated Coupled Lines
  12. Wideband Bandpass Filter with High Selectivity and an Adjustable Notched-band Adopting a Multi-mode Resonator
  13. UWB Bandpass Filter with Ultra-wide Stopband based on Ring Resonator
  14. Design of Compact Wilkinson Power Divider with Harmonic Suppression using T-Shaped Resonators
  15. Dual Segment Glocal Model Based Capacitive Level Sensor (CLS) for Adhesive Material and Level Detection
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