Wideband Pattern-and Polarization-Reconfigurable Antenna Based on Bistable Composite Cylindrical Shells

Yuwei Zhang; Shu Lin; Yanqi Li; Jingxuan Cui; Fuhong Dai; Jianlin Jiao; Alexander Denisov

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2986353

Wideband Pattern-and Polarization-Reconfigurable Antenna Based on Bistable Composite Cylindrical Shells

Yuwei Zhang
, Shu Lin^*
, Yanqi Li
, Jingxuan Cui
, Fuhong Dai
, Jianlin Jiao
, Alexander Denisov

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Astronautics

School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

This paper presents a wideband pattern-and polarization-reconfigurable antenna based on bistable composite cylindrical shells. This antenna, which includes seven radiating metal strips, uses bistable anti-symmetric glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite cylindrical shells as the substrate to achieve reconfigurability without the need for redundant structures or semiconductor devices. This bistable GFRP substrate has two stable cylindrical configurations: extended structure and coiled-up structure. Therefore, by transforming the configuration, the radiation patterns of the proposed antenna are changed, and simultaneously, the polarization is switched between left-handed circular polarization (LHCP) and right-handed circular polarization (RHCP). A prototype of the proposed antenna is fabricated and measured. The measured results indicate that the antenna can operate in the frequency range from 2.3 to 3 GHz in the two configurations. The proposed antenna can be utilized as the payload of a satellite.

Original language	English
Article number	9058680
Pages (from-to)	66777-66787
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2986353
State	Published - 2020

Keywords

Wideband
bistable cylindrical shells
pattern-reconfigurable antenna
polarization-reconfigurable antenna

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