Tri-polarization Reconfigurable Fabry-Perot Resonator Antenna in Ku-band

Authors

  • Shichao Zhu College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Jiagang He College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Jie Yu College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Yang Feng College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Shaopeng Pan College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
  • Gaosheng Li College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/2022.ACES.J.370803

Keywords:

Partially Reflective Surface (PRS), polarization diversity, rotating feeding network, tri-polarization reconfigurable, wideband antenna

Abstract

In this paper, a broadband tri-polarization reconfigurable antenna applied to polarization diversity is proposed. A partially reflective surface (PRS) is designed to form an air-filled resonator cavity. The reflection phase of the PRS has a positive phase gradient in order to achieve the characteristics of the proposed antenna gain enhancement in the wideband. A metal patch of a four-arm meander structure is used as the radiation structure and the feeding is realized through a four-channel rotating feeding network with equal amplitude and 90∘ phase difference. The feeding network is connected to the radiation structure through four metallized vias. In order to realize the polarization reconfigurability, the PIN diodes and the corresponding DC bias circuit are integrated in the rotating feeding network. The characteristics of horizontal polarization (HP), vertical polarization (VP) and right-hand circular polarization (RHCP) are realized by changing the ON/OFF states of PIN diodes integrated in the feeding network. In order to verify the performance of the proposed antenna, fabrication and testing were carried out. The measurement results show that the -10 dB impedance bandwidths of HP, VP, RHCP are 11% (12.5-14 GHz), 6.4% (13.7-14.6 GHz) and 20% (12.2-14.9 GHz), and the peak realized gains are 9.1, 9.2 and 11.5 dBi, respectively. For RHCP mode, the 3-dB axial ratio bandwidth reaches about 17% (12.35-13.4 GHz and 13.6-14.9 GHz).

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Author Biographies

Shichao Zhu, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Shichao Zhu received the Bachelor degree in School of Electrical and Automation Engineering from East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China in 2020. He is currently pursuing the Master degree in the College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha China, under the supervision of Prof. G.S. Li. His research interests include reconfigurable antennas, electromagnetic metamaterials and their antenna applications.

Jiagang He, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Jiagang Heb was born in Xiangtan, Hunan province, China, in 1997. He received the Bachelor degree in College of electronic science and technology from Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, China, in 2019. He is now studying for postgraduate in the College of electronic science and technology, Hunan University. His research interests is terminal antenna and EMC.

Jie Yu, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Jie Yu was born in Xinyang, Henan province, China, in 1998. He received the Bachelor degree in optoelectronic information science and engineering from Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China, in 2019. He is currently working as postgraduate in Hunan University. His research interest is the liquid antennas.

Yang Feng, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Yang Feng was born in Yongzhou, Hunan province, China, in 1997. He received the Bachelor degree in Communication Engineering from Beijing Union University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He received the Master degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Hunan University, Changsha, China, in 2022. His research interests are in antenna theory and technology, including implantable antenna technology, antenna miniaturization technology.

Shaopeng Pan, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Shaopeng Pan received the Bachelor degree in School of Physics and Electronic Science, Hunan University of Science and Technology (HNUST), Xiangtan, China, in 2019. He received the Master degree in Electronic Science and Technology form Hunan University (HNU), Changsha, China in 2022. His research interests include holographic antenna technology, electromagnetic metamaterials and programmable metamaterial antenna.

Gaosheng Li, College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

Gaosheng Li received his B.S. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave and his M.S. degree as well as his PH. D. in electronic science and technology from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha, China, in 2002, 2004 and 2013, respectively. He was with NUDT as a Teaching Assistant from 2004 to 2006, a Lecturer from 2006 to 2011, and then as an Associate Professor from 2011 to 2017. He joined Hunan University as a Professor in 2018. From 2014 to 2016, he was with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) and Wuxi Huace Electronic Systems Co., Ltd., China as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Liverpool (UoL), United Kingdom, sponsored by China Scholarship Council (CSC). His research interests include Antennas and Propagation (AP), Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Wireless Propagation and Microwave Systems. Prof. Li is the author or co-author of 8 books and 170 papers published in journals and conference proceedings. He owns 3 international patents, 45 Chinese patents and 14 software copyrights. He won 3 national scientific prizes in 2008, 2013 and 2015, respectively. He is now a Senior Member of IEEE (2019), a Member of ACES (2017) and IEICE (2011), a Senior Member of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE, 2014), China Institute of Communications (CIC, 2017) and China Instrument and Control Society (CIS, 2020).

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Published

2023-01-02

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S. . Zhu, J. . He, J. . Yu, Y. . Feng, S. . Pan, and G. . Li, “Tri-polarization Reconfigurable Fabry-Perot Resonator Antenna in Ku-band”, ACES Journal, vol. 37, no. 08, pp. 848–855, Jan. 2023.

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