Function-Reconfigurable Water Short Backfire Antenna

Autor: Zhen Ren, Shi-Shan Qi, Wen Wu, Zhongxiang Shen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 203667-203673 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3036844
Popis: A novel short backfire antenna realized by replacing the metallic wall with water wall is described in this paper. Through controlling the water flow in different layers, the proposed short backfire antenna based on a cylindrical waveguide made of water can switch between two different functions. When the proposed antenna works in Function I, it is a short backfire antenna with pencil beam. When it operates in the other function, conical beam is achieved, and its beam angle can be changed by controlling the height of water cylinder and water wall. Measured results show that when working in Function I, the proposed water short backfire antenna has an impedance bandwidth (|S11|
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