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Research ArticleLossy-Transmission-Line Analysis of Frequency ReconfigurableRectangular-Ring Microstrip Antenna
Bambang Setia Nugroho Fitri Yuli Zulkifli and Eko Tjipto Rahardjo
Department of Electrical Engineering Universitas Indonesia Kampus Baru UI Depok West Java 16424 Indonesia
Correspondence should be addressed to Bambang Setia Nugroho bambangsetiauiacid
Received 12 August 2014 Accepted 17 October 2014 Published 13 November 2014
Academic Editor Xianming Qing
Copyright copy 2014 Bambang Setia Nugroho et alThis is an open access article distributed under theCreative CommonsAttributionLicense which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in anymedium provided the originalwork is properly cited
An analytical model for a frequency reconfigurable rectangular-ring microstrip antenna is proposedThe resonant frequencies andinput impedance of the reconfigurable antenna are analyzed using a lossy-transmission-line (LTL) model By making use of 119884-admittance matrices a formulation for the input impedance is analytically derived The structure of the frequency reconfigurableantenna consists of a rectangular-ring shaped microstrip antenna which is loaded with a rectangular patch in the middle of therectangular-ring antenna and fed by a microstrip line RF switches are applied to connect the load to the antenna in order toreconfigure the operating frequencies By modeling the antenna into a multiport equivalent circuit the total input impedanceis analytically derived to predict the resonant frequencies To verify the analysis the model input impedance and reflectioncoefficient calculation have been compared with the full-wave simulation and measurement results The proposed model showsgood agreement with full-wave simulated and measured results in the range of 1ndash3GHz
1 Introduction
Frequency reconfigurable antennas are receiving higherattention in line with the development of advanced commu-nications system Different techniques have been presentedto achieve reconfigurability of the antenna operating frequen-cies butmostly the reconfigurability is controlled bymeans ofRF switches such as PIN diodes FETs varactor diodes andRF-MEMS switches [1] Recently with the urge to integratevarious types of wireless communication systems such asUMTS LTEWiFi andWiMAX into a single device the needfor novelmultiband frequency reconfigurable antenna is evenmore important
A lot of reconfigurable antenna structures have beenwidely reported such as slot [2ndash4] monopole [5 6] square-ring [7ndash9] and rectangular-ring antenna [10ndash12] Howeverthere are only few design procedures or theories of operationfor the reconfigurable antennas that allow designers to createtheir own antennas using the same principles The reconfig-urable antennas are commonly designed and characterizedusing full-wave solver Reconfigurable slot antenna in [4]
was one that has been discussed in detail covering analyticalmodel using transverse resonant technique full-wave charac-terization and design procedure whilst squarerectangular-ring shaped reconfigurable antennas in [7ndash12] have reportedthe full-wave characterization and experimental validationbut did not include the analytical model representation
Transmission line model (TLM) is commonly used topredict the input characteristics of a microstrip antennadue to its accuracy and numerical efficiency whilst lossytransmission line (LTL) model can be utilized for modeling alossy structureThe use of the LTLmodel on a loaded square-ring antenna has been introduced by Garg and Reddy [13]Garg derived the input characteristics of a nonreconfigurablesquare-ring microstrip antenna which loaded with a singlestub However applying the LTL model to represent areconfigurable antenna has not been attempted
Therefore in this paper we extend the use of the LTLmodel and combine it with multiport network analysisto create a general model equation for the reconfigurableantenna previously reported in [10ndash12] The model could beused to explainmore detail on the effect of the switch position
Hindawi Publishing CorporationInternational Journal of Microwave Science and TechnologyVolume 2014 Article ID 303581 10 pageshttpdxdoiorg1011552014303581
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Ls
Wp
Lp
Wg
middot middot middot
Lg
s1 s2 s3
s4
s5
s6s7
sn
snminus1
sn switch-n where n = 1 2 10
Figure 1 Geometry of the frequency reconfigurable antenna
on the antennarsquos resonant frequency Furthermore this paperalso describes an analytical derivation of the input impedanceand prediction of the frequency alteration due to the changein switch combinations
2 The Antenna Structure
The basic antenna structure has been introduced in [10ndash12] In this paper we modify the antenna into a generalform with 119899 number of switches as shown in Figure 1 Theantenna was designed with a rectangular-ring shaped andfabricated on an FR4 substrate with a thickness of 16mmpermittivity of 44 and loss tangent of 002 The dimensionof the rectangular-ring antenna is 342mm (119882119901) times 44mm(119871119901) and the width of the ring is 67mm The antenna isfed by microstrip line with the length of 22mm (119871 119904) and thewidth of 68mm The antenna is loaded with a rectangularpatch which is positioned in the middle of the ring withdimension of 282mm times 184mmThe placement of the loadinto the rectangular ring creates a rectangular ring slot of12mm width The 119899-number RF switches are placed intothe slot to connect the load to the antenna The switchesare placed arbitrarily on each side of the rectangular slot Bychanging the position of the load connected to the antennausing different ON-switch combination different frequencybands can be produced
3 The Proposed Model Representation
31 Proposed Equivalent Circuit In this section we proposean analytical model for the reconfigurable rectangular-ringmicrostrip antenna The antenna is simplified into an equiv-alent circuit and the total input impedance is analyticallyderived to predict the reflection coefficient over a certainfrequency range
The proposed multiport equivalent circuit model of thereconfigurable antenna is shown in Figure 2 The model isbuilt using the following rules (1) the rectangular ring is
modeled as a parallel combination of several transmissionline sections (2) the RF switches locations are represented asportsWhen the switch is OFF the port ismodeled as an opencircuit port or load admittance (119884119897119899) = 0 and when a switchis ON then the associated port model is terminated by a loadadmittance 119884119871119899 (3) as shown in Figure 2 the position of port119899 coincides with the port 0 When 119904119899 is OFF the port will beopen circuit and the voltage of port 119899 119881119899 will be equal to thevoltage of port 0 1198810 Otherwise when 119904119899 is ON the port willbe terminated by load admittance119884119871119899 Hence when two portlocations coincide the ports will exhibit the same behavior asa single port So only one port is taken into account in themodel equation
The admittance matrix approach is most suitable for theanalysis of the equivalent circuitThe general model equationfor the reconfigurable antenna with 119899-switches is describedas
[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
119868119899
]]]]
]
=
[[[[
[
11988400 11988401
11988410 11988411
sdot sdot sdot 1198840119899
sdot sdot sdot 1198841119899
1198841198990 1198841198991
d
sdot sdot sdot 119884119899119899
]]]]
]
[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
119881119899
]]]]
]
(1)
The above equation can be used for arbitrary number ofswitches applied to the antenna
The port current 119868119899 is derived as
119868119899 = 119884119871119899119881119899 (2)
The input impedance of the rectangular-ring antenna119885119860as shown in Figure 2 is obtained by solving this relationship
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
(3)
Then the input impedance observed from the microstripfeeder line 119885in as depicted in Figure 2 is
119885in = 119885119888119891119885119860 + 119885119888119891 tanh 120574119891119871119891119885119888119891 + 119885119860 tanh 120574119891119871119891
(4)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 3
n minus 1
0
1 2 3
4
5
678
InI0
I1 I2 I3
I4
I5
I6I7I8
+
minus
n
Vn
V(nminus1)
V1 V2 V3
V4
V5
V6V7V8
YLn
YL(nminus1)
YL1 YL2 YL3
YL4
YL5
YL6YL7YL8
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minusZA
Zin I(nminus1)
Figure 2 Proposed multiport transmission line equivalent circuit of frequency reconfigurable rectangular-ring microstrip antenna
0
1 2 3
4
5
678
9
10
L1L2 L3 L4
L5
L6L7L8L9
L10
ZAZin
Ls
Figure 3 Definition of transmission line section length 119871119899 input impedance of the rectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 and the input impedanceobserved from the microstrip feeder line 119885in
where 119885119888119891 is a characteristic impedance of line feeder 120574119891is propagation constant of feeder line and 119871119891 is feeder linelength
In the case of the reconfigurable antenna with ten RFswitches as reported in [10ndash12] 119899 in (1) equals to 0 1 2 9The port 10 is not taken into account because its locationcoincides with port 0 The ports are open circuit when theswitch is OFF and when the switch is ON the port currentwill be equal to
119868119899 = 119884119871101198810 for 119899 = 0119884119871119899119881119899 for 119899 = 1 2 9
(5)
In the following subsections the derivation of the matrixcomponents and other parameters are conducted in the caseof the reconfigurable antenna with 10 RF switches
32 Determining 119884-Matrix Components (119884119899119898) and Transmis-sion Line Parameters As seen in Figure 3 we defined thelength of the line section between the port (119899 minus 1) and
the port and by 119871119899 for example 1198711 is a line section of port0 to port 1
The 119884-admittance matrix components 119884119899119898 can bederived by using this following rule [14]
119884119899119898 =119868119899
119881119898
10038161003816100381610038161003816100381610038161003816119881119896=0 for 119896 =119898 (6)
321 Determining 11988400 To determine 11988400 all of the portsexcept port 0 are short circuited as shown in Figure 4Therefore using the transmission (ABCD) matrix [14] foreach line section 1198711 and 11987110 the admittance component 11988400can be obtained
(1198810
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(0
1198681)
1198841015840
00=1198681015840
0
1198810
=cosh 1205741199031198711119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711
= 119884119888119903 coth 1205741199031198711
(7)
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1 2 3
4
5
678
V0
I0
I1
I9
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
Figure 4 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988400 where all of the ports except port 0 are short circuited
1 2
3
4
5
678
I0
I1
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V1
Figure 5 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988401 where all of the ports except port 1 are short circuited
1 2 3
4
5
678
I0
I2
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V2
Figure 6 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988402 where all of the ports except port 2 are short circuited
The admittance1198841015840101584000is determined using the samemethod
in (7)The admittance matrix component11988400 equals1198841015840
00+11988410158401015840
00
and it is defined as
11988400 = 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110) (8)
Whereas 119884119888119903 is characteristic admittance of the ringantenna = 1119885119888119903 120574119903 is propagation constant of ring antenna
and 1198711 11987110 are line section length of port 0 to port 1 and port9 to port 0 respectively
322 Determining 11988401 To determine 11988401 all of the portsexcept port 1 are short circuited as depicted in Figure 5Therefore admittance 11988401 can be defined using transmissionmatrix equation in each transmission line section 1198711 and 11987110
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 5
Bend
T-junction
Stepand
T-junction
Figure 7 Various discontinuities in the reconfigurable antenna
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
Imag( ) simulatedImag( ) model
Zin
ZinZin
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
0100200300400500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
MeasuredReal( ) simulatedReal( ) model
ZinZin
Zin
(b)
minus35
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 8 Case 1 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
(0
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(1198811
1198681)
1198841015840
01=1198681015840
0
1198811
=minuscosh21205741199031198711 + sinh
21205741199031198711
119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711= minus119884119888119903csch1205741199031198711
(9)
Using the same method it was found that 1198841015840101584001= 0 The
admittance matrix component of 11988401 is defined as 119884101584001+ 11988410158401015840
01
and expressed as
11988401 = minus119884119888119903 (csch 1205741199031198711) (10)
323 Determining 11988402 To determine 11988402 all of the portsexcept port 2 are short circuited and the port voltages 119881119899 for119899 = 2 equal zero as described in Figure 6 Therefore
11988402 = 0 (11)
The other matrix component 1198840119899 for 119899 = 3 4 8 willbe equal to zero as well
11988402 = 11988403 = 11988404 = sdot sdot sdot = 11988408 = 0 (12)
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05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500Re
acta
nce o
f(O
hm)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)Figure 9 Case 2 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
Using the same method described above we can defineall of the 119884-admittance matrix components and they arepresented in Table 1
Transmission line parameter such as attenuation con-stant 120572 phase constant 120573 propagation constant 120574 and
characteristic admittance119884119888 are determined using themodeldeveloped in [14]
The complete model equation for the reconfigurableantenna is defined in
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
1198682
1198683
1198684
1198685
1198686
1198687
1198688
1198689
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
=
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
11988400 11988400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988409
11988410 11988411 11988412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 11988421 11988422 11988423 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 11988432 11988433 11988434 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 11988443 11988444 11988445 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 11988454 11988455 11988456 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 11988465 11988466 11988467 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 11988476 11988477 11988478 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988487 11988488 11988489
11988490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988498 11988499
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
1198812
1198813
1198814
1198815
1198816
1198817
1198818
1198819
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
(13)
As can be seen in Figure 7 various types of discontinuitiesoccurred in this antenna There are bends steps and T-junctions These discontinuities were modeled by equivalentline extension
Dearnley and Barel [15] noted that the transmissionline model is also a harmonic model so it can modelthe fundamental mode and its harmonics Therefore wecombined the Dearnley model in our LTL model to create
a complete model equation of the frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring antenna
4 Model Validation
In verifying the model presented above we have calculatedthe input impedance and the reflection coefficient of theantenna in two different cases Thereafter the calculated
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
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[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
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2 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
Ls
Wp
Lp
Wg
middot middot middot
Lg
s1 s2 s3
s4
s5
s6s7
sn
snminus1
sn switch-n where n = 1 2 10
Figure 1 Geometry of the frequency reconfigurable antenna
on the antennarsquos resonant frequency Furthermore this paperalso describes an analytical derivation of the input impedanceand prediction of the frequency alteration due to the changein switch combinations
2 The Antenna Structure
The basic antenna structure has been introduced in [10ndash12] In this paper we modify the antenna into a generalform with 119899 number of switches as shown in Figure 1 Theantenna was designed with a rectangular-ring shaped andfabricated on an FR4 substrate with a thickness of 16mmpermittivity of 44 and loss tangent of 002 The dimensionof the rectangular-ring antenna is 342mm (119882119901) times 44mm(119871119901) and the width of the ring is 67mm The antenna isfed by microstrip line with the length of 22mm (119871 119904) and thewidth of 68mm The antenna is loaded with a rectangularpatch which is positioned in the middle of the ring withdimension of 282mm times 184mmThe placement of the loadinto the rectangular ring creates a rectangular ring slot of12mm width The 119899-number RF switches are placed intothe slot to connect the load to the antenna The switchesare placed arbitrarily on each side of the rectangular slot Bychanging the position of the load connected to the antennausing different ON-switch combination different frequencybands can be produced
3 The Proposed Model Representation
31 Proposed Equivalent Circuit In this section we proposean analytical model for the reconfigurable rectangular-ringmicrostrip antenna The antenna is simplified into an equiv-alent circuit and the total input impedance is analyticallyderived to predict the reflection coefficient over a certainfrequency range
The proposed multiport equivalent circuit model of thereconfigurable antenna is shown in Figure 2 The model isbuilt using the following rules (1) the rectangular ring is
modeled as a parallel combination of several transmissionline sections (2) the RF switches locations are represented asportsWhen the switch is OFF the port ismodeled as an opencircuit port or load admittance (119884119897119899) = 0 and when a switchis ON then the associated port model is terminated by a loadadmittance 119884119871119899 (3) as shown in Figure 2 the position of port119899 coincides with the port 0 When 119904119899 is OFF the port will beopen circuit and the voltage of port 119899 119881119899 will be equal to thevoltage of port 0 1198810 Otherwise when 119904119899 is ON the port willbe terminated by load admittance119884119871119899 Hence when two portlocations coincide the ports will exhibit the same behavior asa single port So only one port is taken into account in themodel equation
The admittance matrix approach is most suitable for theanalysis of the equivalent circuitThe general model equationfor the reconfigurable antenna with 119899-switches is describedas
[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
119868119899
]]]]
]
=
[[[[
[
11988400 11988401
11988410 11988411
sdot sdot sdot 1198840119899
sdot sdot sdot 1198841119899
1198841198990 1198841198991
d
sdot sdot sdot 119884119899119899
]]]]
]
[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
119881119899
]]]]
]
(1)
The above equation can be used for arbitrary number ofswitches applied to the antenna
The port current 119868119899 is derived as
119868119899 = 119884119871119899119881119899 (2)
The input impedance of the rectangular-ring antenna119885119860as shown in Figure 2 is obtained by solving this relationship
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
(3)
Then the input impedance observed from the microstripfeeder line 119885in as depicted in Figure 2 is
119885in = 119885119888119891119885119860 + 119885119888119891 tanh 120574119891119871119891119885119888119891 + 119885119860 tanh 120574119891119871119891
(4)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 3
n minus 1
0
1 2 3
4
5
678
InI0
I1 I2 I3
I4
I5
I6I7I8
+
minus
n
Vn
V(nminus1)
V1 V2 V3
V4
V5
V6V7V8
YLn
YL(nminus1)
YL1 YL2 YL3
YL4
YL5
YL6YL7YL8
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minusZA
Zin I(nminus1)
Figure 2 Proposed multiport transmission line equivalent circuit of frequency reconfigurable rectangular-ring microstrip antenna
0
1 2 3
4
5
678
9
10
L1L2 L3 L4
L5
L6L7L8L9
L10
ZAZin
Ls
Figure 3 Definition of transmission line section length 119871119899 input impedance of the rectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 and the input impedanceobserved from the microstrip feeder line 119885in
where 119885119888119891 is a characteristic impedance of line feeder 120574119891is propagation constant of feeder line and 119871119891 is feeder linelength
In the case of the reconfigurable antenna with ten RFswitches as reported in [10ndash12] 119899 in (1) equals to 0 1 2 9The port 10 is not taken into account because its locationcoincides with port 0 The ports are open circuit when theswitch is OFF and when the switch is ON the port currentwill be equal to
119868119899 = 119884119871101198810 for 119899 = 0119884119871119899119881119899 for 119899 = 1 2 9
(5)
In the following subsections the derivation of the matrixcomponents and other parameters are conducted in the caseof the reconfigurable antenna with 10 RF switches
32 Determining 119884-Matrix Components (119884119899119898) and Transmis-sion Line Parameters As seen in Figure 3 we defined thelength of the line section between the port (119899 minus 1) and
the port and by 119871119899 for example 1198711 is a line section of port0 to port 1
The 119884-admittance matrix components 119884119899119898 can bederived by using this following rule [14]
119884119899119898 =119868119899
119881119898
10038161003816100381610038161003816100381610038161003816119881119896=0 for 119896 =119898 (6)
321 Determining 11988400 To determine 11988400 all of the portsexcept port 0 are short circuited as shown in Figure 4Therefore using the transmission (ABCD) matrix [14] foreach line section 1198711 and 11987110 the admittance component 11988400can be obtained
(1198810
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(0
1198681)
1198841015840
00=1198681015840
0
1198810
=cosh 1205741199031198711119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711
= 119884119888119903 coth 1205741199031198711
(7)
4 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
1 2 3
4
5
678
V0
I0
I1
I9
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
Figure 4 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988400 where all of the ports except port 0 are short circuited
1 2
3
4
5
678
I0
I1
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V1
Figure 5 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988401 where all of the ports except port 1 are short circuited
1 2 3
4
5
678
I0
I2
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V2
Figure 6 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988402 where all of the ports except port 2 are short circuited
The admittance1198841015840101584000is determined using the samemethod
in (7)The admittance matrix component11988400 equals1198841015840
00+11988410158401015840
00
and it is defined as
11988400 = 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110) (8)
Whereas 119884119888119903 is characteristic admittance of the ringantenna = 1119885119888119903 120574119903 is propagation constant of ring antenna
and 1198711 11987110 are line section length of port 0 to port 1 and port9 to port 0 respectively
322 Determining 11988401 To determine 11988401 all of the portsexcept port 1 are short circuited as depicted in Figure 5Therefore admittance 11988401 can be defined using transmissionmatrix equation in each transmission line section 1198711 and 11987110
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 5
Bend
T-junction
Stepand
T-junction
Figure 7 Various discontinuities in the reconfigurable antenna
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
Imag( ) simulatedImag( ) model
Zin
ZinZin
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
0100200300400500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
MeasuredReal( ) simulatedReal( ) model
ZinZin
Zin
(b)
minus35
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 8 Case 1 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
(0
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(1198811
1198681)
1198841015840
01=1198681015840
0
1198811
=minuscosh21205741199031198711 + sinh
21205741199031198711
119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711= minus119884119888119903csch1205741199031198711
(9)
Using the same method it was found that 1198841015840101584001= 0 The
admittance matrix component of 11988401 is defined as 119884101584001+ 11988410158401015840
01
and expressed as
11988401 = minus119884119888119903 (csch 1205741199031198711) (10)
323 Determining 11988402 To determine 11988402 all of the portsexcept port 2 are short circuited and the port voltages 119881119899 for119899 = 2 equal zero as described in Figure 6 Therefore
11988402 = 0 (11)
The other matrix component 1198840119899 for 119899 = 3 4 8 willbe equal to zero as well
11988402 = 11988403 = 11988404 = sdot sdot sdot = 11988408 = 0 (12)
6 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500Re
acta
nce o
f(O
hm)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)Figure 9 Case 2 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
Using the same method described above we can defineall of the 119884-admittance matrix components and they arepresented in Table 1
Transmission line parameter such as attenuation con-stant 120572 phase constant 120573 propagation constant 120574 and
characteristic admittance119884119888 are determined using themodeldeveloped in [14]
The complete model equation for the reconfigurableantenna is defined in
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
1198682
1198683
1198684
1198685
1198686
1198687
1198688
1198689
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
=
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
11988400 11988400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988409
11988410 11988411 11988412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 11988421 11988422 11988423 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 11988432 11988433 11988434 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 11988443 11988444 11988445 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 11988454 11988455 11988456 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 11988465 11988466 11988467 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 11988476 11988477 11988478 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988487 11988488 11988489
11988490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988498 11988499
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
1198812
1198813
1198814
1198815
1198816
1198817
1198818
1198819
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
(13)
As can be seen in Figure 7 various types of discontinuitiesoccurred in this antenna There are bends steps and T-junctions These discontinuities were modeled by equivalentline extension
Dearnley and Barel [15] noted that the transmissionline model is also a harmonic model so it can modelthe fundamental mode and its harmonics Therefore wecombined the Dearnley model in our LTL model to create
a complete model equation of the frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring antenna
4 Model Validation
In verifying the model presented above we have calculatedthe input impedance and the reflection coefficient of theantenna in two different cases Thereafter the calculated
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
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International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 3
n minus 1
0
1 2 3
4
5
678
InI0
I1 I2 I3
I4
I5
I6I7I8
+
minus
n
Vn
V(nminus1)
V1 V2 V3
V4
V5
V6V7V8
YLn
YL(nminus1)
YL1 YL2 YL3
YL4
YL5
YL6YL7YL8
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minus
+
minusZA
Zin I(nminus1)
Figure 2 Proposed multiport transmission line equivalent circuit of frequency reconfigurable rectangular-ring microstrip antenna
0
1 2 3
4
5
678
9
10
L1L2 L3 L4
L5
L6L7L8L9
L10
ZAZin
Ls
Figure 3 Definition of transmission line section length 119871119899 input impedance of the rectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 and the input impedanceobserved from the microstrip feeder line 119885in
where 119885119888119891 is a characteristic impedance of line feeder 120574119891is propagation constant of feeder line and 119871119891 is feeder linelength
In the case of the reconfigurable antenna with ten RFswitches as reported in [10ndash12] 119899 in (1) equals to 0 1 2 9The port 10 is not taken into account because its locationcoincides with port 0 The ports are open circuit when theswitch is OFF and when the switch is ON the port currentwill be equal to
119868119899 = 119884119871101198810 for 119899 = 0119884119871119899119881119899 for 119899 = 1 2 9
(5)
In the following subsections the derivation of the matrixcomponents and other parameters are conducted in the caseof the reconfigurable antenna with 10 RF switches
32 Determining 119884-Matrix Components (119884119899119898) and Transmis-sion Line Parameters As seen in Figure 3 we defined thelength of the line section between the port (119899 minus 1) and
the port and by 119871119899 for example 1198711 is a line section of port0 to port 1
The 119884-admittance matrix components 119884119899119898 can bederived by using this following rule [14]
119884119899119898 =119868119899
119881119898
10038161003816100381610038161003816100381610038161003816119881119896=0 for 119896 =119898 (6)
321 Determining 11988400 To determine 11988400 all of the portsexcept port 0 are short circuited as shown in Figure 4Therefore using the transmission (ABCD) matrix [14] foreach line section 1198711 and 11987110 the admittance component 11988400can be obtained
(1198810
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(0
1198681)
1198841015840
00=1198681015840
0
1198810
=cosh 1205741199031198711119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711
= 119884119888119903 coth 1205741199031198711
(7)
4 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
1 2 3
4
5
678
V0
I0
I1
I9
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
Figure 4 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988400 where all of the ports except port 0 are short circuited
1 2
3
4
5
678
I0
I1
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V1
Figure 5 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988401 where all of the ports except port 1 are short circuited
1 2 3
4
5
678
I0
I2
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V2
Figure 6 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988402 where all of the ports except port 2 are short circuited
The admittance1198841015840101584000is determined using the samemethod
in (7)The admittance matrix component11988400 equals1198841015840
00+11988410158401015840
00
and it is defined as
11988400 = 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110) (8)
Whereas 119884119888119903 is characteristic admittance of the ringantenna = 1119885119888119903 120574119903 is propagation constant of ring antenna
and 1198711 11987110 are line section length of port 0 to port 1 and port9 to port 0 respectively
322 Determining 11988401 To determine 11988401 all of the portsexcept port 1 are short circuited as depicted in Figure 5Therefore admittance 11988401 can be defined using transmissionmatrix equation in each transmission line section 1198711 and 11987110
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 5
Bend
T-junction
Stepand
T-junction
Figure 7 Various discontinuities in the reconfigurable antenna
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
Imag( ) simulatedImag( ) model
Zin
ZinZin
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
0100200300400500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
MeasuredReal( ) simulatedReal( ) model
ZinZin
Zin
(b)
minus35
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 8 Case 1 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
(0
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(1198811
1198681)
1198841015840
01=1198681015840
0
1198811
=minuscosh21205741199031198711 + sinh
21205741199031198711
119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711= minus119884119888119903csch1205741199031198711
(9)
Using the same method it was found that 1198841015840101584001= 0 The
admittance matrix component of 11988401 is defined as 119884101584001+ 11988410158401015840
01
and expressed as
11988401 = minus119884119888119903 (csch 1205741199031198711) (10)
323 Determining 11988402 To determine 11988402 all of the portsexcept port 2 are short circuited and the port voltages 119881119899 for119899 = 2 equal zero as described in Figure 6 Therefore
11988402 = 0 (11)
The other matrix component 1198840119899 for 119899 = 3 4 8 willbe equal to zero as well
11988402 = 11988403 = 11988404 = sdot sdot sdot = 11988408 = 0 (12)
6 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500Re
acta
nce o
f(O
hm)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)Figure 9 Case 2 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
Using the same method described above we can defineall of the 119884-admittance matrix components and they arepresented in Table 1
Transmission line parameter such as attenuation con-stant 120572 phase constant 120573 propagation constant 120574 and
characteristic admittance119884119888 are determined using themodeldeveloped in [14]
The complete model equation for the reconfigurableantenna is defined in
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
1198682
1198683
1198684
1198685
1198686
1198687
1198688
1198689
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
=
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
11988400 11988400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988409
11988410 11988411 11988412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 11988421 11988422 11988423 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 11988432 11988433 11988434 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 11988443 11988444 11988445 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 11988454 11988455 11988456 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 11988465 11988466 11988467 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 11988476 11988477 11988478 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988487 11988488 11988489
11988490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988498 11988499
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
1198812
1198813
1198814
1198815
1198816
1198817
1198818
1198819
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
(13)
As can be seen in Figure 7 various types of discontinuitiesoccurred in this antenna There are bends steps and T-junctions These discontinuities were modeled by equivalentline extension
Dearnley and Barel [15] noted that the transmissionline model is also a harmonic model so it can modelthe fundamental mode and its harmonics Therefore wecombined the Dearnley model in our LTL model to create
a complete model equation of the frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring antenna
4 Model Validation
In verifying the model presented above we have calculatedthe input impedance and the reflection coefficient of theantenna in two different cases Thereafter the calculated
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
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4 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
1 2 3
4
5
678
V0
I0
I1
I9
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
Figure 4 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988400 where all of the ports except port 0 are short circuited
1 2
3
4
5
678
I0
I1
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V1
Figure 5 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988401 where all of the ports except port 1 are short circuited
1 2 3
4
5
678
I0
I2
100
I9984000
I9984009984000
9
V2
Figure 6 Equivalent circuit for determining 11988402 where all of the ports except port 2 are short circuited
The admittance1198841015840101584000is determined using the samemethod
in (7)The admittance matrix component11988400 equals1198841015840
00+11988410158401015840
00
and it is defined as
11988400 = 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110) (8)
Whereas 119884119888119903 is characteristic admittance of the ringantenna = 1119885119888119903 120574119903 is propagation constant of ring antenna
and 1198711 11987110 are line section length of port 0 to port 1 and port9 to port 0 respectively
322 Determining 11988401 To determine 11988401 all of the portsexcept port 1 are short circuited as depicted in Figure 5Therefore admittance 11988401 can be defined using transmissionmatrix equation in each transmission line section 1198711 and 11987110
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 5
Bend
T-junction
Stepand
T-junction
Figure 7 Various discontinuities in the reconfigurable antenna
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
Imag( ) simulatedImag( ) model
Zin
ZinZin
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
0100200300400500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
MeasuredReal( ) simulatedReal( ) model
ZinZin
Zin
(b)
minus35
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 8 Case 1 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
(0
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(1198811
1198681)
1198841015840
01=1198681015840
0
1198811
=minuscosh21205741199031198711 + sinh
21205741199031198711
119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711= minus119884119888119903csch1205741199031198711
(9)
Using the same method it was found that 1198841015840101584001= 0 The
admittance matrix component of 11988401 is defined as 119884101584001+ 11988410158401015840
01
and expressed as
11988401 = minus119884119888119903 (csch 1205741199031198711) (10)
323 Determining 11988402 To determine 11988402 all of the portsexcept port 2 are short circuited and the port voltages 119881119899 for119899 = 2 equal zero as described in Figure 6 Therefore
11988402 = 0 (11)
The other matrix component 1198840119899 for 119899 = 3 4 8 willbe equal to zero as well
11988402 = 11988403 = 11988404 = sdot sdot sdot = 11988408 = 0 (12)
6 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500Re
acta
nce o
f(O
hm)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)Figure 9 Case 2 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
Using the same method described above we can defineall of the 119884-admittance matrix components and they arepresented in Table 1
Transmission line parameter such as attenuation con-stant 120572 phase constant 120573 propagation constant 120574 and
characteristic admittance119884119888 are determined using themodeldeveloped in [14]
The complete model equation for the reconfigurableantenna is defined in
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
1198682
1198683
1198684
1198685
1198686
1198687
1198688
1198689
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
=
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
11988400 11988400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988409
11988410 11988411 11988412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 11988421 11988422 11988423 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 11988432 11988433 11988434 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 11988443 11988444 11988445 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 11988454 11988455 11988456 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 11988465 11988466 11988467 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 11988476 11988477 11988478 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988487 11988488 11988489
11988490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988498 11988499
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
1198812
1198813
1198814
1198815
1198816
1198817
1198818
1198819
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
(13)
As can be seen in Figure 7 various types of discontinuitiesoccurred in this antenna There are bends steps and T-junctions These discontinuities were modeled by equivalentline extension
Dearnley and Barel [15] noted that the transmissionline model is also a harmonic model so it can modelthe fundamental mode and its harmonics Therefore wecombined the Dearnley model in our LTL model to create
a complete model equation of the frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring antenna
4 Model Validation
In verifying the model presented above we have calculatedthe input impedance and the reflection coefficient of theantenna in two different cases Thereafter the calculated
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
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[2] L Pazin and Y Leviatan ldquoReconfigurable slot antenna forswitchable multiband operation in a wide frequency rangerdquoIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol 12 pp329ndash332 2013
[3] H F Abutarboush R Nilavalan S W Cheung et al ldquoAreconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devicesrdquo IEEETransactionson Antennas and Propagation vol 60 no 1 pp 36ndash43 2012
[4] D Peroulis K Sarabandi and L P B Katehi ldquoDesign ofreconfigurable slot antennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennasand Propagation vol 53 no 2 pp 645ndash654 2005
[5] C Zhang S Yang S El-Ghazaly A E Fathy and V KNair ldquoA low-profile branched monopole laptop reconfigurablemultiband antenna for wireless applicationsrdquo IEEE Antennasand Wireless Propagation Letters vol 8 pp 216ndash219 2009
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[7] J-F Tsai and J-S Row ldquoReconfigurable square-ring microstripantennardquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol61 no 5 pp 2857ndash2860 2013
[8] Y J Sung ldquoFrequency and polarisation reconfigurability froman open-loop square ring antennardquo IET Microwaves Antennasand Propagation vol 6 no 5 pp 505ndash509 2012
[9] M A Alkanhal and A F Sheta ldquoA novel dual-band reconfig-urable square-ring microstrip antennardquo Progress in Electromag-netics Research vol 70 pp 337ndash349 2007
[10] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoSimplefrequency reconfigurable antenna by changing the number andposition of the switchesrdquo in Proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Quality in Research (QiR rsquo11) pp 428ndash433 BaliIndonesia 2011
[11] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoPINdiodes slotted microstrip antenna as frequency reconfigurableantennardquo in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation pp 814ndash817 Nagoya JapanNovember 2012
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[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
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International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 5
Bend
T-junction
Stepand
T-junction
Figure 7 Various discontinuities in the reconfigurable antenna
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
Imag( ) simulatedImag( ) model
Zin
ZinZin
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
0100200300400500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
MeasuredReal( ) simulatedReal( ) model
ZinZin
Zin
(b)
minus35
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 8 Case 1 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
(0
1198681015840
0
) = (
cosh 1205741199031198711 119885119888119903 sinh 12057411990311987111
119885119888119903
sinh 1205741199031198711 cosh 1205741199031198711)(1198811
1198681)
1198841015840
01=1198681015840
0
1198811
=minuscosh21205741199031198711 + sinh
21205741199031198711
119885119888119903 sinh 1205741199031198711= minus119884119888119903csch1205741199031198711
(9)
Using the same method it was found that 1198841015840101584001= 0 The
admittance matrix component of 11988401 is defined as 119884101584001+ 11988410158401015840
01
and expressed as
11988401 = minus119884119888119903 (csch 1205741199031198711) (10)
323 Determining 11988402 To determine 11988402 all of the portsexcept port 2 are short circuited and the port voltages 119881119899 for119899 = 2 equal zero as described in Figure 6 Therefore
11988402 = 0 (11)
The other matrix component 1198840119899 for 119899 = 3 4 8 willbe equal to zero as well
11988402 = 11988403 = 11988404 = sdot sdot sdot = 11988408 = 0 (12)
6 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500Re
acta
nce o
f(O
hm)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)Figure 9 Case 2 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
Using the same method described above we can defineall of the 119884-admittance matrix components and they arepresented in Table 1
Transmission line parameter such as attenuation con-stant 120572 phase constant 120573 propagation constant 120574 and
characteristic admittance119884119888 are determined using themodeldeveloped in [14]
The complete model equation for the reconfigurableantenna is defined in
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
1198682
1198683
1198684
1198685
1198686
1198687
1198688
1198689
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
=
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
11988400 11988400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988409
11988410 11988411 11988412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 11988421 11988422 11988423 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 11988432 11988433 11988434 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 11988443 11988444 11988445 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 11988454 11988455 11988456 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 11988465 11988466 11988467 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 11988476 11988477 11988478 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988487 11988488 11988489
11988490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988498 11988499
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
1198812
1198813
1198814
1198815
1198816
1198817
1198818
1198819
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
(13)
As can be seen in Figure 7 various types of discontinuitiesoccurred in this antenna There are bends steps and T-junctions These discontinuities were modeled by equivalentline extension
Dearnley and Barel [15] noted that the transmissionline model is also a harmonic model so it can modelthe fundamental mode and its harmonics Therefore wecombined the Dearnley model in our LTL model to create
a complete model equation of the frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring antenna
4 Model Validation
In verifying the model presented above we have calculatedthe input impedance and the reflection coefficient of theantenna in two different cases Thereafter the calculated
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] J T Bernhard Reconfigurable Antennas chapter 4 section 42Morgan amp Claypool 2007
[2] L Pazin and Y Leviatan ldquoReconfigurable slot antenna forswitchable multiband operation in a wide frequency rangerdquoIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol 12 pp329ndash332 2013
[3] H F Abutarboush R Nilavalan S W Cheung et al ldquoAreconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devicesrdquo IEEETransactionson Antennas and Propagation vol 60 no 1 pp 36ndash43 2012
[4] D Peroulis K Sarabandi and L P B Katehi ldquoDesign ofreconfigurable slot antennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennasand Propagation vol 53 no 2 pp 645ndash654 2005
[5] C Zhang S Yang S El-Ghazaly A E Fathy and V KNair ldquoA low-profile branched monopole laptop reconfigurablemultiband antenna for wireless applicationsrdquo IEEE Antennasand Wireless Propagation Letters vol 8 pp 216ndash219 2009
[6] R Goncalves P Pinho and N B Carvalho ldquoCompact fre-quency reconfigurable printed monopole antennardquo Interna-tional Journal of Antennas and Propagation vol 2012 ArticleID 602780 6 pages 2012
[7] J-F Tsai and J-S Row ldquoReconfigurable square-ring microstripantennardquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol61 no 5 pp 2857ndash2860 2013
[8] Y J Sung ldquoFrequency and polarisation reconfigurability froman open-loop square ring antennardquo IET Microwaves Antennasand Propagation vol 6 no 5 pp 505ndash509 2012
[9] M A Alkanhal and A F Sheta ldquoA novel dual-band reconfig-urable square-ring microstrip antennardquo Progress in Electromag-netics Research vol 70 pp 337ndash349 2007
[10] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoSimplefrequency reconfigurable antenna by changing the number andposition of the switchesrdquo in Proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Quality in Research (QiR rsquo11) pp 428ndash433 BaliIndonesia 2011
[11] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoPINdiodes slotted microstrip antenna as frequency reconfigurableantennardquo in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation pp 814ndash817 Nagoya JapanNovember 2012
10 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
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Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
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Advances inOptoElectronics
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Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
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Navigation and Observation
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DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
6 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500Re
acta
nce o
f(O
hm)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)Figure 9 Case 2 results comparison between input impedance and reflection coefficient of LTL analytical model full-wave solver simulatedresult and measurement result (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
Using the same method described above we can defineall of the 119884-admittance matrix components and they arepresented in Table 1
Transmission line parameter such as attenuation con-stant 120572 phase constant 120573 propagation constant 120574 and
characteristic admittance119884119888 are determined using themodeldeveloped in [14]
The complete model equation for the reconfigurableantenna is defined in
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198680
1198681
1198682
1198683
1198684
1198685
1198686
1198687
1198688
1198689
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
=
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
11988400 11988400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988409
11988410 11988411 11988412 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 11988421 11988422 11988423 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 11988432 11988433 11988434 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 11988443 11988444 11988445 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 11988454 11988455 11988456 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 11988465 11988466 11988467 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 11988476 11988477 11988478 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988487 11988488 11988489
11988490 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11988498 11988499
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
[
1198810
1198811
1198812
1198813
1198814
1198815
1198816
1198817
1198818
1198819
]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
]
(13)
As can be seen in Figure 7 various types of discontinuitiesoccurred in this antenna There are bends steps and T-junctions These discontinuities were modeled by equivalentline extension
Dearnley and Barel [15] noted that the transmissionline model is also a harmonic model so it can modelthe fundamental mode and its harmonics Therefore wecombined the Dearnley model in our LTL model to create
a complete model equation of the frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring antenna
4 Model Validation
In verifying the model presented above we have calculatedthe input impedance and the reflection coefficient of theantenna in two different cases Thereafter the calculated
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] J T Bernhard Reconfigurable Antennas chapter 4 section 42Morgan amp Claypool 2007
[2] L Pazin and Y Leviatan ldquoReconfigurable slot antenna forswitchable multiband operation in a wide frequency rangerdquoIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol 12 pp329ndash332 2013
[3] H F Abutarboush R Nilavalan S W Cheung et al ldquoAreconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devicesrdquo IEEETransactionson Antennas and Propagation vol 60 no 1 pp 36ndash43 2012
[4] D Peroulis K Sarabandi and L P B Katehi ldquoDesign ofreconfigurable slot antennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennasand Propagation vol 53 no 2 pp 645ndash654 2005
[5] C Zhang S Yang S El-Ghazaly A E Fathy and V KNair ldquoA low-profile branched monopole laptop reconfigurablemultiband antenna for wireless applicationsrdquo IEEE Antennasand Wireless Propagation Letters vol 8 pp 216ndash219 2009
[6] R Goncalves P Pinho and N B Carvalho ldquoCompact fre-quency reconfigurable printed monopole antennardquo Interna-tional Journal of Antennas and Propagation vol 2012 ArticleID 602780 6 pages 2012
[7] J-F Tsai and J-S Row ldquoReconfigurable square-ring microstripantennardquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol61 no 5 pp 2857ndash2860 2013
[8] Y J Sung ldquoFrequency and polarisation reconfigurability froman open-loop square ring antennardquo IET Microwaves Antennasand Propagation vol 6 no 5 pp 505ndash509 2012
[9] M A Alkanhal and A F Sheta ldquoA novel dual-band reconfig-urable square-ring microstrip antennardquo Progress in Electromag-netics Research vol 70 pp 337ndash349 2007
[10] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoSimplefrequency reconfigurable antenna by changing the number andposition of the switchesrdquo in Proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Quality in Research (QiR rsquo11) pp 428ndash433 BaliIndonesia 2011
[11] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoPINdiodes slotted microstrip antenna as frequency reconfigurableantennardquo in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation pp 814ndash817 Nagoya JapanNovember 2012
10 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 7
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus500
0
500
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Zin
SimulatedModel
Measured
(b)
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 10 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199049 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
results are compared with the simulation and measurementresults to evaluate the accuracy
41 Case 1 All Switches Are OFF When all switches are OFFall of the loads on each port model are open circuit so that theports current is zero
119868119899 = 0 (14)
Substituting (14) into (13) the input impedance of therectangular-ring antenna 119885119860 can be obtained by solving themodel equation using inverse matrix
[119881] = [119884]minus1[119868] (15)
[119885] = [119884]minus1 (16)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 (17)
The final solution for 119885in is obtained by substituting (17)into (4)
Results of case 1 model calculation are shown in Figure 8In this figure the results are compared to full-wave simulationand measurement results to show the prediction capabilityprovided by the model It can be seen in Figure 8 that
the model agrees well with full-wave predicted input charac-teristics as well asmeasured resultsThismodel can be used topredict the input characteristics of the reconfigurable antennain the range of 1ndash3GHz
42 Case 2 One of the Switches Is ON In this case weexamine the accuracy of the model when one of the switchesis ON for example 1199041 When the 1199041 is ON then the loadadmittance in port 1 exists or 1198841198711 = 0 and its current is
1198681 = 11988411987111198811 (18)
Whereas the other ports are open circuit and the currentis equal to zero
119868119899 = 0 for 119899 = 1 (19)
The load admittance 1198841198711 is calculated by assuming thesmall patch as a microstrip line which is connected to idealswitch represented as microstrip line as well Consider
1198841198711 = 119884119888 sw119884in sp + 119884119888 sw tanh 120574sw119871 sw119884119888 sw + 119884in sp tanh 120574sw119871 sw
(20)
where 119884119888 sw is characteristic admittance of the ideal switch119884in sp is input admittance of small patch observed from
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] J T Bernhard Reconfigurable Antennas chapter 4 section 42Morgan amp Claypool 2007
[2] L Pazin and Y Leviatan ldquoReconfigurable slot antenna forswitchable multiband operation in a wide frequency rangerdquoIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol 12 pp329ndash332 2013
[3] H F Abutarboush R Nilavalan S W Cheung et al ldquoAreconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devicesrdquo IEEETransactionson Antennas and Propagation vol 60 no 1 pp 36ndash43 2012
[4] D Peroulis K Sarabandi and L P B Katehi ldquoDesign ofreconfigurable slot antennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennasand Propagation vol 53 no 2 pp 645ndash654 2005
[5] C Zhang S Yang S El-Ghazaly A E Fathy and V KNair ldquoA low-profile branched monopole laptop reconfigurablemultiband antenna for wireless applicationsrdquo IEEE Antennasand Wireless Propagation Letters vol 8 pp 216ndash219 2009
[6] R Goncalves P Pinho and N B Carvalho ldquoCompact fre-quency reconfigurable printed monopole antennardquo Interna-tional Journal of Antennas and Propagation vol 2012 ArticleID 602780 6 pages 2012
[7] J-F Tsai and J-S Row ldquoReconfigurable square-ring microstripantennardquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol61 no 5 pp 2857ndash2860 2013
[8] Y J Sung ldquoFrequency and polarisation reconfigurability froman open-loop square ring antennardquo IET Microwaves Antennasand Propagation vol 6 no 5 pp 505ndash509 2012
[9] M A Alkanhal and A F Sheta ldquoA novel dual-band reconfig-urable square-ring microstrip antennardquo Progress in Electromag-netics Research vol 70 pp 337ndash349 2007
[10] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoSimplefrequency reconfigurable antenna by changing the number andposition of the switchesrdquo in Proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Quality in Research (QiR rsquo11) pp 428ndash433 BaliIndonesia 2011
[11] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoPINdiodes slotted microstrip antenna as frequency reconfigurableantennardquo in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation pp 814ndash817 Nagoya JapanNovember 2012
10 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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Advances inOptoElectronics
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Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
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DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
8 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
minus400
minus200
0
600
400
200
Reac
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)Z
in
SimulatedModel
Measured
(a)
Resis
tanc
e of
(Ohm
)
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
0
400300200100
500600700800
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
SimulatedModel
Measured
Zin
(b)
minus25
minus30
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
SimulatedModel
05 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
Measured
(c)
Figure 11 Comparison of input impedance and reflection coefficient between LTL analytical models full-wave solver simulated results andmeasurement results when 1199047 is ON (a) reactance (b) resistance and (c) reflection coefficient
minus30
minus25
minus20
minus15
minus10
minus5
0
Refle
ctio
n co
effici
ent (
dB)
050 1 15 2 25 3Frequency (GHz)
All OFFs9 ONs7 ONs2 s7 ONs1 ON
s6 s7 s8 ONs2 ON
Figure 12 The simulation results of the antenna with several different states of switches
the input of the ideal switch 120574sw is the propagation constantof the switch and 119871 sw is the length of the switch The inputadmittance of small patch 119884in sp is calculated by assumingthat the end of the small patch is open circuit So 119884in sp isdefined as
119884in sp = 119884119888 sp tanh 120574sp119871 sp (21)
Therefore the input impedance of the rectangular-ringantenna 119885119860 is obtained by substituting (18)ndash(21) into (12)
119885119860 =1198810
1198680
= 11988500 +11988510119885011198841198711
1 minus 119885111198841198711
(22)
The final solution for 119885in in case 2 is obtained by solving(4) which is substituted with (22)
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] J T Bernhard Reconfigurable Antennas chapter 4 section 42Morgan amp Claypool 2007
[2] L Pazin and Y Leviatan ldquoReconfigurable slot antenna forswitchable multiband operation in a wide frequency rangerdquoIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol 12 pp329ndash332 2013
[3] H F Abutarboush R Nilavalan S W Cheung et al ldquoAreconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devicesrdquo IEEETransactionson Antennas and Propagation vol 60 no 1 pp 36ndash43 2012
[4] D Peroulis K Sarabandi and L P B Katehi ldquoDesign ofreconfigurable slot antennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennasand Propagation vol 53 no 2 pp 645ndash654 2005
[5] C Zhang S Yang S El-Ghazaly A E Fathy and V KNair ldquoA low-profile branched monopole laptop reconfigurablemultiband antenna for wireless applicationsrdquo IEEE Antennasand Wireless Propagation Letters vol 8 pp 216ndash219 2009
[6] R Goncalves P Pinho and N B Carvalho ldquoCompact fre-quency reconfigurable printed monopole antennardquo Interna-tional Journal of Antennas and Propagation vol 2012 ArticleID 602780 6 pages 2012
[7] J-F Tsai and J-S Row ldquoReconfigurable square-ring microstripantennardquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol61 no 5 pp 2857ndash2860 2013
[8] Y J Sung ldquoFrequency and polarisation reconfigurability froman open-loop square ring antennardquo IET Microwaves Antennasand Propagation vol 6 no 5 pp 505ndash509 2012
[9] M A Alkanhal and A F Sheta ldquoA novel dual-band reconfig-urable square-ring microstrip antennardquo Progress in Electromag-netics Research vol 70 pp 337ndash349 2007
[10] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoSimplefrequency reconfigurable antenna by changing the number andposition of the switchesrdquo in Proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Quality in Research (QiR rsquo11) pp 428ndash433 BaliIndonesia 2011
[11] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoPINdiodes slotted microstrip antenna as frequency reconfigurableantennardquo in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation pp 814ndash817 Nagoya JapanNovember 2012
10 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology 9
Table 1 119884-matrix components
119884-matrix component Quantity11988400 119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 12057411990311987110)11988401 minus119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988409 minus119884119888119903 (csch12057411990311987110)11988410 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)11988411 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198711 + coth 1205741199031198712)11988412 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988421 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198712)11988422 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198712 + coth 1205741199031198713)11988423 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988432 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198713)11988433 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198713 + coth 1205741199031198714)11988434 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988443 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198714)11988444 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198714 + coth 1205741199031198715)11988445 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988454 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198715)11988455 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198715 + coth 1205741199031198716)11988456 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988465 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198716)11988466 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198716 + coth 1205741199031198717)11988467 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988476 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198717)11988477 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198717 + coth 1205741199031198718)11988478 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988487 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198718)11988488 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198718 + coth 1205741199031198719)11988489 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988498 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198719)11988499 minus119884119888119903 (coth 1205741199031198719 + coth 1205741199031198711)11988490 119884119888119903 (csch1205741199031198711)Remaining components 0
After calculating all of the possible modes results of thisanalytical model are compared to the full wave simulationand measurement results as seen in Figure 9 In this figurethe model shows a good agreement with the simulated andmeasured results and it can be used to predict the resonantfrequency of the reconfigurable antenna
To show the generality of the model we present theother examples of the proposed model calculation results forthe other ON switch configurations The model calculationresults when 1199049 is ON and 1199047 is ON are depicted in Figures 10and 11 respectivelyThe results agree well with simulated andmeasured results
In Figure 12 we present the simulation results of thereconfigurable antenna with several different states of theswitches It can be seen that the reconfiguration of theantenna frequency can be achieved by changing the positionand the number of the switches
5 Conclusion
We presented modeling of a frequency reconfigurablerectangular-ring microstrip antenna using lossy-transmis-sion-line and multiport network model The model can beused to analytically derive the input characteristic of thereconfigurable antenna with arbitrary number of switchesThe results show good accuracy and agreement in a widerange of frequency for single ON-switch configurationFurthermore this analytical model can be used to predictthe appropriate switch locations in generating the desiredoperating frequency
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper
References
[1] J T Bernhard Reconfigurable Antennas chapter 4 section 42Morgan amp Claypool 2007
[2] L Pazin and Y Leviatan ldquoReconfigurable slot antenna forswitchable multiband operation in a wide frequency rangerdquoIEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters vol 12 pp329ndash332 2013
[3] H F Abutarboush R Nilavalan S W Cheung et al ldquoAreconfigurable wideband and multiband antenna using dual-patch elements for compact wireless devicesrdquo IEEETransactionson Antennas and Propagation vol 60 no 1 pp 36ndash43 2012
[4] D Peroulis K Sarabandi and L P B Katehi ldquoDesign ofreconfigurable slot antennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennasand Propagation vol 53 no 2 pp 645ndash654 2005
[5] C Zhang S Yang S El-Ghazaly A E Fathy and V KNair ldquoA low-profile branched monopole laptop reconfigurablemultiband antenna for wireless applicationsrdquo IEEE Antennasand Wireless Propagation Letters vol 8 pp 216ndash219 2009
[6] R Goncalves P Pinho and N B Carvalho ldquoCompact fre-quency reconfigurable printed monopole antennardquo Interna-tional Journal of Antennas and Propagation vol 2012 ArticleID 602780 6 pages 2012
[7] J-F Tsai and J-S Row ldquoReconfigurable square-ring microstripantennardquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol61 no 5 pp 2857ndash2860 2013
[8] Y J Sung ldquoFrequency and polarisation reconfigurability froman open-loop square ring antennardquo IET Microwaves Antennasand Propagation vol 6 no 5 pp 505ndash509 2012
[9] M A Alkanhal and A F Sheta ldquoA novel dual-band reconfig-urable square-ring microstrip antennardquo Progress in Electromag-netics Research vol 70 pp 337ndash349 2007
[10] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoSimplefrequency reconfigurable antenna by changing the number andposition of the switchesrdquo in Proceedings of the 12th InternationalConference on Quality in Research (QiR rsquo11) pp 428ndash433 BaliIndonesia 2011
[11] B S Nugroho F Y Zulkifli and E T Rahardjo ldquoPINdiodes slotted microstrip antenna as frequency reconfigurableantennardquo in Proceedings of the 17th International Symposiumon Antennas and Propagation pp 814ndash817 Nagoya JapanNovember 2012
10 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
International Journal of
AerospaceEngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
RoboticsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Active and Passive Electronic Components
Control Scienceand Engineering
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
RotatingMachinery
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Journal ofEngineeringVolume 2014
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
VLSI Design
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Shock and Vibration
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Civil EngineeringAdvances in
Acoustics and VibrationAdvances in
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Journal of
Advances inOptoElectronics
Hindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
SensorsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Modelling amp Simulation in EngineeringHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Chemical EngineeringInternational Journal of Antennas and
Propagation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Navigation and Observation
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
DistributedSensor Networks
International Journal of
10 International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology
[12] E T Rahardjo F Y Zulkifli and B S Nugroho ldquoMultibandreconfigurable microstrip antennardquo in Proceedings of the AsiaPacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation Chiang MaiThailand 2013
[13] R Garg and V S Reddy ldquoEdge feeding of microstrip ringantennasrdquo IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation vol51 no 8 pp 1941ndash1946 2003
[14] D M Pozar Microwave Engineering chapter 3 sec 38 JohnWiley amp Sons New York NY USA 3rd edition 2005
[15] R W Dearnley and A R F Barel ldquoBroad-band transmissionlinemodel for a rectangular microstrip antennardquo IEEE Transac-tions on Antennas and Propagation vol 37 no 1 pp 6ndash15 1989
International Journal of
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