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MEMS-reconfigurable metamaterials and antenna applications

Optics 2014-05-08 v3

Abstract

This paper reviews some of our contributions to reconfigurable metamaterials, where dynamic control is enabled by micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology. First, we show reconfigurable composite right/left handed transmission lines (CRLH-TLs) having state of the art phase velocity variation and loss, thereby enabling efficient reconfigurable phase shifters and leaky-wave antennas (LWA). Second, we present very low loss metasurface designs with reconfigurable reflection properties, applicable in reflectarrays and partially reflective surface (PRS) antennas. All the presented devices have been fabricated and experimentally validated. They operate in X- and Ku-bands.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5570,
  title  = {MEMS-reconfigurable metamaterials and antenna applications},
  author = {Tomislav Debogovic and Julien Perruisseau-Carrier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5570},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages; 8 figures; International Journal of Antennas and Propagation