Portable Metamaterial Structure Antenna for Dual-Band and Polarization-Reconfigurability

  • Lee, Changhyeong (Dept. of Info. & Telecomm. Eng. Incheon National University) ;
  • Han, Dajung (Dept. of Info. & Telecomm. Eng. Incheon National University) ;
  • Park, Heejun (Dept. of Info. & Telecomm. Eng. Incheon National University) ;
  • Kahng, Sungtek (Dept. of Info. & Telecomm. Eng. Incheon National University)
  • Received : 2016.09.26
  • Accepted : 2016.09.29
  • Published : 2016.09.30

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a palm-sized metamaterial antenna system having reconfigurable polarization as well as dual-band characteristics. Basically, three antennas are laid by 45 degrees in order and excited by a compact metamaterial dual-band power-divider of the in-phase outputs, and the radiated fields of the antennas are mixed to turn the vector of the polarization to another. The validity of the proposed method is verified by observing the in-phase outputs from the odd-numbered power-dividing device for both 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz, and checking the changeable polarization with the antenna gain over 2 dBi for all the polarizations.

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