Analysis of Electronically Reconfigurable Beam Steering Antenna Array using Phase Shifter Technique

The effect of PIN diodes position on reconfigurable ring antenna performance is investigated and studied in this work. The proposed antenna consists of two ring radiator patches, facilitating 1.25% bandwidth cantered at 5.85 GHz. Simulation and measurement result is presented successfully to demonstrate the integration effect of PIN diodes with antenna to steer the antenna beam toward the desired direction. Besides being low profile, an average gains up to 8 dBi is achieved at all reconfiguration scenarios.