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Reconfigurable Antennas: Switching Techniques—A Survey
  Due to the fast development of wireless communication technology, reconfigurable antennas with multimode and cognitive radio operation in modern wireless applications with a high-data rate have drawn very close attention from researchers. Reconfigurable antennas can provide various functions in operating frequency, beam pattern, polarization, etc. The dynamic tuning can be achieved by manipulating a certain switching mechanism through controlling electronic, mechanical, physical or optical switches. Among them, electronic switches are the most popular in constituting reconfigurable antennas due to their efficiency, reliability and ease of integrating with microwave circuitry. In this paper, we review different implementation techniques for reconfigurable antennas. Different types of effective implementation techniques have been investigated to be used in various wireless communication systems such as satellite, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), mobile terminals and cognitive radio communications. Characteristics and fundamental properties of the reconfigurable antennas are investigated.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    15 February 2020

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    MDPI AG

  • DOI:

    10.3390/electronics9020336

  • Cross Ref:

    10.3390/electronics9020336

  • Funders:

    Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

Citation

Ojaroudi Parchin, N., Jahanbakhsh Basherlou, H., Al-Yasir, Y. I. A., M. Abdulkhaleq, A., & A. Abd-Alhameed, R. (2020). Reconfigurable Antennas: Switching Techniques—A Survey. Electronics, 9(2), Article 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9020336

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Keywords

active elements; cognitive radio; implementation techniques; reconfigurable antennas; MIMO; modern wireless communications

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