A dual‐function switchable and frequency tunable active frequency selective surface

Author(s):  
Yulin Liang ◽  
Mingsong Chen ◽  
Lin Peng ◽  
Zihan Li



2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongyu Ding ◽  
Shaoqing Zhang ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Yanhui Liu

In this paper, we proposed a beamforming antenna, which is realized using an omnidirectional antenna in the center surrounded by a cylindrical smart dome. The smart dome is made of 16 active frequency selective surface columns of which the amplitude and phase response can be continuously tuned by varying the bias voltages of the employed varactors. Thus, the performance of the proposed antenna could achieve higher gain, better nulling level, and more agility than many switch methods-based cylindrical reconfigurable antennas. Moreover, in order to overcome the unavailable analytical synthesis caused by complex mutual coupling between columns, we develop a genetic algorithm based optimization system and conducted a serial of experiments to evaluate the high-gain, nulling, continuously steering, and frequency-invariant ability. The results show that, during the frequency tunable range of the AFSS (2.0 GHz to 2.7 GHz), the antenna can offer an additional gain of up to 6.57 dB and nulling level of −56.41 dBi. For the high-gain modes, the −3 dB beam widths are 26°–34°, which offers enhanced angular resolution compared with other reported beam-sweeping work. Furthermore, the radiation pattern is continuously steerable.



Author(s):  
Alfredo Gomes Neto ◽  
Jefferson Costa e Silva ◽  
Alexandre Jean Rene Serres ◽  
Marina de Oliveira Alencar ◽  
Ianes Barbosa Grecia Coutinho ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Bao Lu ◽  
Shu-xi Gong ◽  
Jin Ling ◽  
wen-tao Wang




2017 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 708-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Gao ◽  
Seyed Mohamad Amin Momeni Hasan Abadi ◽  
Nader Behdad


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