Leaky-Wave Antenna With Switchable Omnidirectional Conical Radiation via Polarization Handedness

An Electronically Switchable Leaky Wave Antenna

We report an electronically switchable dielectric leaky wave antenna. The main beam angle can be electronically steered using p-i-n diodes. The diodes are used as switches to control the radiation from two sets of gratings with different periods, thereby switching the main beam angle. Beam steering is achieved at a single fixed frequency; no frequency sweeping is necessary. A microwave prototyp...

Silicon-based optical leaky wave antenna with narrow beam radiation.

We propose a design of a dielectric (silicon nitride) optical leaky wave antenna (OLWA) with periodic semiconductor (silicon) corrugations, capable of producing narrow beam radiation. The optical antenna radiates a narrow beam because a leaky wave (LW) with low attenuation constant is excited at one end of the corrugated dielectric waveguide. We show that pointing angle, beam-width, and operati...

Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna with Switchable Polarization

A new reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna allowing switching between two circular polarizations is proposed. It consists of a square radiating patch and a 3 dB hybrid coupler. Using only a single-polar-double-throw (SPDT) switch, the polarization switching can be achieved. This design of the dc-bias network is extremely simple. From experimental results, the proposed antenna avoids the freq...

Reconfigurable Microstrip Patch Antenna with Switchable Polarization

Kyungho Chung et al. 379 ABSTRACT⎯A novel reconfigurable microstrip patch antenna with frequency and polarization diversities is proposed. A U-slot is incorporated into a square patch, and a PIN diode is utilized to switch the slot on and off, which realizes the frequency diversity characteristic. The polarization diversities among linear polarization (LP), right-hand circular polarization (RHC...

Circularly Polarized Proximity-Fed Microstrip Antenna with Switchable Polarization Ability