TY - GEN
T1 - A Radiation Pattern-Reconfigurable Patch Antenna with Tunable CSRR based on Liquid Metal and 3-D Printed Microfluidics
AU - Wang, Yumeng
AU - Gao, Lu
AU - Zheng, Pei
AU - Song, Lingnan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this article, a radiation patternreconfigurable patch antenna with tunable complementary split-ring resonators (CSRR) based on liquid metal (LM) and 3-D printed microfluidics is presented. The antenna is composed of three layers, a top coaxial fed rectangular patch, a middle ground plane with two CSRRs etched symmetrically, and two bottom microfluidics channels each adhered underneath the corresponding CSRR. Pattern reconfiguration is achieved by filling the microfluidic channels with the liquid metal plugs to change the physical parameters of the CSRR structure. By adjusting the length of the slot stubs in CSRRs, the main beam of the double CSRR-loaded antenna can be continuously scanned from -46° to 46° in elevation plane.
AB - In this article, a radiation patternreconfigurable patch antenna with tunable complementary split-ring resonators (CSRR) based on liquid metal (LM) and 3-D printed microfluidics is presented. The antenna is composed of three layers, a top coaxial fed rectangular patch, a middle ground plane with two CSRRs etched symmetrically, and two bottom microfluidics channels each adhered underneath the corresponding CSRR. Pattern reconfiguration is achieved by filling the microfluidic channels with the liquid metal plugs to change the physical parameters of the CSRR structure. By adjusting the length of the slot stubs in CSRRs, the main beam of the double CSRR-loaded antenna can be continuously scanned from -46° to 46° in elevation plane.
KW - 3-D printed microfluidics modules
KW - complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR)
KW - liquid metal eutectic gallium indium (EGaIn)
KW - patch antenna
KW - radiation pattern reconfigurable
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85151491952
U2 - 10.1109/ACES-China56081.2022.10065137
DO - 10.1109/ACES-China56081.2022.10065137
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85151491952
T3 - 2022 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium, ACES-China 2022
BT - 2022 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium, ACES-China 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium, ACES-China 2022
Y2 - 9 December 2022 through 12 December 2022
ER -