• 文献标题:   An ultra-wideband pattern reconfigurable antenna based on graphene coating
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JIANG YN, YUAN R, GAO X, WANG J, LI SM, LIN YY
  • 作者关键词:   ultrawideband pattern reconfigurable antenna, graphene, impedance surface
  • 出版物名称:   CHINESE PHYSICS B
  • ISSN:   1674-1056 EI 1741-4199
  • 通讯作者地址:   Guangxi Key Lab Wireless Wideband Commun Signal
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1088/1674-1056/25/11/118402
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

An ultra-wideband pattern reconfigurable antenna is proposed. The antenna is a dielectric coaxial hollow monopole with a cylindrical graphene-based impedance surface coating. It consists of a graphene sheet coated onto the inner surface of a cylindrical substrate and a set of independent polysilicon DC gating pads mounted on the outside of the cylindrical substrate. By changing the DC bias voltages to the different gating pads, the surface impedance of the graphene coating can be freely controlled. Due to the tunability of graphene's surface impedance, the radiation pattern of the proposed antenna can be reconfigured. A transmission line method is used to illustrate the physical mechanism of the proposed antenna. The results show that the proposed antenna can reconfigure its radiation pattern in the omnidirectional mode with the relative bandwidth of 58.5% and the directional mode over the entire azimuth plane with the relative bandwidth of 67%.