Microfluidically Polarization-Switchable Metasurfaced Antenna
- 26 September 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
- Vol. 17 (12), 2255-2259
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2018.2872108
Abstract
This paper reports a polarization-switchable metasurfaced antenna, which comprises a source antenna and a metasurface as a superstrate. The metasurface consists of a 4 × 4 microfluidic element array, and each element is designed with a rectangular loop with diagonals formed by microfluidic injection. The left-hand circular polarization (LHCP), right-hand circular polarization (RHCP), and linear polarization (LP) are achieved by microfluidic injection through different channel inlets on the metasurface. The performance of proposed antenna in terms of polarization reconfigurability, axial ratio bandwidth (ARBW), impedance bandwidth, broadside gain, and radiation pattern are experimentally verified after fabrication. The experimental results show that the proposed antenna achieves a 3-dB ARBW from 2.47 to 2.55 GHz (i.e., fractional bandwidth of 3.18%) for LHCP and RHCP, with the realized peak gains of 5.86 dBi and 5.84 dBi in boresight for LHCP and RHCP respectively, at 2.51 GHz. The 10-dB impedance bandwidth of the antenna in LP mode is from 2.32 to 2.52 GHz and from 2.41 to 2.59 GHz in LHCP and RHCP modes, respectively (i.e., fractional bandwidth of 7.2%).Keywords
Funding Information
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (2018R1A4A1023826)
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