Analysis and design of reconfigurable antennas using the theory of characteristic modes
- Autores: Zakaria Mahlaoui Boudallaa
- Directores de la Tesis: Eva Antonino Daviu (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de València ( España ) en 2023
- Idioma: inglés
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Angela Coves Soler (presid.), José Ignacio Herranz Herruzo (secret.), Marko Sonkki (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Telecomunicación por la Universitat Politècnica de València
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- Resumen
The Theory of Characteristic Modes, originally formulated in 1968, allows to obtain a set of real eigenvalues and real current modes that can be used to expand the total current on a conducting or dielectric body. The information provided by characteristic eigencurrents (modes) and eigenvalues can be used to perform antenna design in a systematic way. The great advantage of the Theory of Characteristic Modes over other traditional design methods is the clear physical vision provided about the phenomena that contribute to the radiation of the antenna. This physical vision allows to better understand the operation of the antenna, so that the design and the optimization of it can be carried out quickly and coherently.
The objective of this Thesis is to extend the use of the Theory of Characteristic Modes to the design of reconfigurable antennas in a systematic way. The use of reconfigurable antennas has become more and more important during the last years, as a way to meet the imposed requirements and desired performance of novel wireless communication systems. The approach of making an antenna reconfigurable implies the capability of an antenna system to adjust its characteristic such as operating frequency, radiation pattern and polarization. Active components such as varactor diodes, PIN diodes, MEMS, RF switches, photoconductive elements or smart materials can be used to change these base characteristics.
The dynamic reconfigurability of the operating parameters of an antenna leads to a flexible communication system. Frequency reconfigurable antennas enable multi-standard performances to be maintained while preserving the same physical characteristics of the antennas. Radiation reconfigurable and polarisation diversity antennas enable to increase the efficiency of indoor communications by significantly decreasing the level of interference.
In this thesis, the research is turning around the analysis and design of antenna structures with the Theory of Characteristic Modes in a way that the antenna parameters will be tuneable, so the final design of the structure is a reconfigurable antenna that modifies dynamically its performance in a reasoned and coherent way. Characteristic modes and their properties will be analysed in order to design reconfigurable antennas, which combine different modes and produce different radiation characteristics. A systematic method to obtain the required characteristics of the antenna will be implemented during this work. Moreover, different switching techniques will be analysed and evaluated in order to asses their real effect on the antenna and on the characteristic modes. In this work, small reconfigurable antenna prototypes will be designed for IoT applications and 5G systems.
