IEEE Access (Jan 2018)
Advances in Reconfigurable Antenna Systems Facilitated by Innovative Technologies
Abstract
Future fifth generation (5G) wireless platforms will require reconfigurable antenna systems to meet their performance requirements in compact, light-weight, and cost-effective packages. Recent advances in reconfigurable radiating and receiving structures have been enabled by a variety of innovative technology solutions. Examples of reconfigurable partially reflective surface antennas, reconfigurable filtennas, reconfigurable Huygens dipole antennas, and reconfigurable feeding network-enabled antennas are presented and discussed. They represent novel classes of frequency, pattern, polarization, and beamdirection reconfigurable systems realized by the innovative combinations of radiating structures and circuit components.
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