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MDPI, Electronics, 8(8), p. 900, 2019

DOI: 10.3390/electronics8080900

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A Low-Cost CPW-Fed Multiband Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna for Wireless Applications

Journal article published in 2019 by Tayyaba Khan, MuhibUr Rahman ORCID, Adeel Akram, Yasar Amin ORCID, Hannu Tenhunen
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

A novel, cedar-shaped, coplanar waveguide-fed frequency reconfigurable antenna is proposed. The presented antenna uses low-cost FR4 substrate with a thickness of 1.6 mm. Four PIN diodes are inserted on the antenna surface to variate the current distribution and alter the resonant frequencies with different combinations of switches. The proposed antenna is fabricated and measured for all states, and a good agreement is seen between measured and simulated results. This antenna resonates within the range of 2 GHz to 10 GHz, covering the major wireless applications of aviation service, wireless local area network (WLAN), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), long distance radio telecommunications, and X-band satellite communication. The proposed antenna works resourcefully with reasonable gain, significant bandwidth, directivity, and reflection coefficient. The proposed multiband reconfigurable antenna will pave the way for future wireless communications including WLAN, WiMAX, and possibly fifth-generation (5G) communication.