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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2012.23.4.431

Design of Beam-Forming Array Antenna with a Reconfigurable Power Divider  

Tae, Hyun-Sung (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST))
Son, Wang-Ik (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST))
Jang, Hyung-Seok (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST))
Oh, Kyoung-Sub (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST))
Yu, Jong-Won (Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST))
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science / v.23, no.4, 2012 , pp. 431-440 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, new beam-forming array antenna is proposed. The proposed beam-forming array antenna has control ability for beam-direction/width by employing low loss reconfigurable power divide and three-dimensional array structure. The reconfigurable power divider is key idea in the proposed antenna, because it has reconfigurable RF power distribution ability to each antenna. And, for research and verification of the proposed antenna, 3-dimensional beam-forming array antenna is implemented, and the experimental results show that the proposed antenna has various radiation modes from 1:1 to 1:N by adjusting RF power distribution.
Keywords
Beam-Width Controllable Array Antenna; Reconfigurable Power Divider; Beam-Forming Array Antenna;
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