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FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRAL ANTENNA MASMURNI BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN A project report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Master of Engineering (Electrical-Electronic and Telecommunication) Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 27 JANUARY 2012

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FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE ARCHIMEDEAN SPIRAL ANTENNA

MASMURNI BINTI ABDUL RAHMAN

A project report submitted in partial fulfilment of the

requirements for the award of a degree of

Master of Engineering (Electrical-Electronic and Telecommunication)

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

27 JANUARY 2012

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Specially dedicated to my beloved mother and sisters…

Norsiah, Mastura and Siti Roselina

for their endless love that keeps me going.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In the name of ALLAH, thanks for His blessing to make this project successful

although the uneasiness and hardship which I have to face. Thank you for the strengths

and the spirits.

I am deeply indebted to my supervisor Assoc Prof Ir. Dr. Sharul Kamal Abdul

Rahim and also to Dr. M. Rijal Hamid for the guidance, stimulating suggestions and

encouragement during the research, from the beginning till the end of this thesis.

Thanks also to all my graduate friends who have shared ideas and discussions

during the completion of this project. Their help and ideas are much appreciated.

Last but not least, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my mother and

sisters for their never ending support and understanding throughout my master study.

Their prays, sacrifices, and encouragements have helped and motivated me a lot

throughout the completion of this thesis.

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ABSTRACT

The latest evolution of communication technology system has observed an

emerging of new multi-functional devices and new applications operating in different

frequencies. As the technology advances, it becomes apparent that a transceiver which

could operate at multi-frequency is in need to support the system. Hence in this thesis, a

frequency reconfigurable switchable between wideband and narrowband has been

proposed and investigated. The idea was to support a wide frequency of operation and

at the same time could be switched to operate at a single frequency in order to reduce

the interference level at the receiver. This antenna is potentially useful for UWB and

future cognitive radio systems. The proposed antenna utilized an Archimedean spiral

antenna as the wideband antenna, and it was reconfigured by adding a slot resonator to

the structure to enable narrowband operation. Two ideal switches in the form of metal

pads are used for the studies to enable the reconfiguration capability. Performance

results from the measurements and simulations results shows a good agreement in terms

of return loss and radiation pattern which shows a broad bandwidth operation at

wideband operation and 16% bandwidth for the narrowband operation with a maximum

gain of 3dBi at the frequency of operation.

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ABSTRAK

Evolusi terbaru sistem teknologi komunikasi dapat diperhatikan dengan

kemunculan peranti pelbagai fungsi dan juga kemunculan aplikasi baru yang beroperasi

dalam frekuensi yang berlainan. Dengan ini jelas sekali bahawa alat pemancar dan

penerima signal yang dapat berfungsi dalam pelbagai frekuensi diperlukan untuk

menyokong sistem komunikasi. Oleh itu, di dalam tesis ini, antenna yang

berkemampuan untuk mengubah frekuensi operasinya dari jalur lebar (2GHz - 8GHz)

kepada jalur sempit pada frequensi 5.8GHz telah dicadangkan dan dikaji. Antenna ini

direka supaya ianya dapat beroperasi dalam pada jalur lebar dan dalam masa yag sama

boleh ditukarkan supaya berfungsi pada jalur sempit hanya dengan menggunakan satu

antenna sahaja untuk mengurangkan tahap gangguan signal pada alat penerima.

Antenna ini berpotensi untuk digunakan untuk aplikasi radio kognitif sistem pada masa

depan. Antenna yang dicadangkan menggunakan struktur antenna lingkar Archimedean

dan ditambah dengan slot resonator untuk membolehkan ianya direkonfigurasi.

Keputusan prestasi dari simulasi dan pengukuran menunjukkan satu persamaan antara

satu sama lain dari segi kehilangan balikan dan pola radiasi yang menunjukkan respon

frekuensi jalur lebar apabila beroperasi pada jalur lebar, dan menghasilkan 16% lebar

jalur untuk operasi pada jalur sempit

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER TITLE PAGE

DECLARATION ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

ABSTRACT v

ABSTRAK vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS vii

LIST OF TABLES x

LIST OF FIGURES xi

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiv

LIST OF SYMBOLS xvi

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Background of Study 2

1.3 Problem Statements 3

1.4 Objectives 3

1.5 Scope of Project 4

1.6 Thesis Organization 4

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2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Introduction 6

2.2

Microwave Filter

2.2.1 Filter Symmetry

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2.3 Review of Previously Designed Reconfigurable Antenna 10

2.3.1 Fixed Frequency Reconfigurable Antenna 10

2.3.2 Wideband-Narrowband Reconfigurable Antenna 16

2.3.3 Tunable reconfigurable antenna 19

2.4 Wideband Antenna 21

2.4.1 Archimedean Spiral Antenna (ASA) Geometry 21

2.4.2 Operating Principle 23

2.4.3 Coplanar Waveguide Feed Structure 25

2.5 Summary 26

3 METHODOLOGY

3.1 Introduction 27

3.2 Simulation 29

3.2.1 Wideband Antenna Design 29

3.2.2 Slot Resonator Model Construction 31

3.2.3 Optimization of the Slot Resonator 32

3.3 Fabrication 33

3.4 Antenna Measurements 34

3.5 Summary 34

4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Introduction 35

4.2 Simulation Results 35

4.2.1 Wideband Configuration Mode 36

4.2.2 Slot Width Variation at Switch Location 37

4.2.3 Meandered Slotline Width Variation 38

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4.2.4 Comparison of Simulated Gain between

Wideband and Narrowband Mode

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4.2.5 Comparison of Simulated Axial Ratio between

Wideband and Narrowband Mode

44

4.2.6 Simulated Radiation Pattern 45

4.3 Measurement Results 48

4.3.1 Comparison of Simulated and Measured Return

Loss

48

4.3.2 Comparison of Simulated and Measured

Radiation Pattern

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4.4 Summary 52

5 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORKS

5.1 Conclusion 53

5.2 Future work 54

REFERENCES 55-58

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LIST OF TABLES

TABLE NO. TITLE PAGE

3.1 Parameter length of the Archimedean Spiral antenna

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3.2 Parameters length of the slot resonator 32

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LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE NO. TITLE PAGE

2.1 Reconfigurable method using switched feed and switched

ground.

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2.2 Rectangular monopole antenna with elliptical base. 11

2.3 Combination of PIFA and Monopole antenna 12

2.4 Reconfigurable printed dipole antenna 12

2.5 Multi-segment printed loop structure antenna 13

2.6 Rectangular microstrip patch with U-shaped slot 14

2.7 A tunable dual frequency stacked circular disc microstrip

antenna

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2.8 Slot antenna (a) Dual band reconfigurable slot antenna ,

(b) T-slotted reconfigurable PIFA antenna

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2.9 A Reconfigurable Space-Filling-Based Slot Antenna 16

2.10 Frequency reconfigurable half-lambda length dipole

antenna

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2.11 Reconfigurable Vivaldi antenna structure 17

2.12 Antenna configuration in [17], (a) Front view (b) Rear

view

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2.13 Geometry of Reconfigurable Log Periodic Antenna (a)

Front view, (b) Side view

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2.14 Structure of (a) reconfigurable handset chassis (b)

elements with discrete port

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2.15 Printed slot bent antenna for fixed and tunable

reconfigurability

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2.16 Reconfigurable U-slot microstrip antenna 21

2.17 Archimedean Spiral Antenna geometry 23

2.18 Two arms gap-fed stripline spiral antenna 25

2.19 Three arms coplanar waveguide-fed Archimedean

spiral antenna

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2.20 Diagram of coplanar waveguide feeding configuration 27

3.1 Flowchart of the project works 29

3.2 Geometry of non-reconfigurable Archimedean spiral

antenna

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3.3 Meandered slot line of slot resonator 32

3.4 Different shapes of slot resonator (a) L-shaped, (b)

rectangular rings, (c) circular rings and (d) circular

heads

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3.5 Prototype of the fabricated antenna 34

4.1 Wideband configuration (a). with the presence of slot

resonator, (b). without the presence of slot resonator

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4.2 Effect of the presence of slot resonator on simulated

return loss

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4.3 Simulated return loss with different slot width at switch

location

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4.4 Slot resonator meandered slotline parameters 39

4.5 Simulated return loss with H1 varied 40

4.6 Simulated return loss with H2 varied 41

4.7 Simulated return loss with R1 varied 41

4.8 Simulated return loss with R2 varied 42

4.9 Simulated return loss with R3 varied 43

4.10 Comparison of simulated gain between wideband mode

and narrowband

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4.11 Simulated axial ratio at frequency range 2GHz to 8GHz 45

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4.12 Simulated axial ratio at frequency range 2 GHz to 4

GHz

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4.13 Simulated radiation pattern at two principal planes in

wideband mode, (a) H-Plane(xz), (b) E-Plane (yz).

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4.14 Simulated radiation pattern at two principal planes in

narrowband mode (a)H-Plane(xz) and (b) E-Plane (yz)

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4.15 Prototype of the fabricated antenna 49

4.16 Comparison of simulated and measured return loss at

wideband mode

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4.17

4.18

Comparison of simulation and measurements return

loss for narrowband operation

Comparison between simulated and measured

normalized radiation pattern for wideband

configuration mode (a) H-Plane (xz), (b) E-Plane (yz).

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

mm - Millimeter

GHz - Gigahertz

MHz - Megahertz

UWB - Ultra Wideband

ASA - Archimedean Spiral Antenna

CPW - Coplanar Waveguide

WiFi - Wireless Fidelity

WLAN - Wireless Local Area Network

WiMAX - Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access

WPAN - Wireless Personal Area Network

Gbps - Gigabits per second

Mbps - Megabits per second

SDR - Software Define Radio

IEEE - Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers

MIMO - Multiple Input Multiple Output

FM - Frequency Modulated

GPS - Geostationary Position System

FET - Field Effect Transistor

RF-MEMS - Radio Frequency – M

CST MWS - CST Microwave Studio

FR4 - Fire Retardant 4

PB - Passband

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LP - Low Pass

GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications

DCS - Digital Communication System

PCS - Personal Communication System

UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

LAN - Local Area Network

PIFA - Proportional-Integral

WCC - Wireless Communication Center

H-plane - Magnetic field plane

E-plane - Electric field plane

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LIST OF SYMBOLS

dB - Decibel

dBi - Decibel isotropic

Q - Quality Factor

- Spiral Growth Rate

- Angle

- Maximum radius of

spiral

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction

In today’s fast paced communication technology changes, new applications

are rapidly emerging. UWB system, multimode radio and future cognitive radio have

become the hot topics amongst researchers nowadays. The rapid developments of

communication system have driven the invention of wireless terminal that is capable

of operating in multimode, multiband and do handover between multiple standards

[1]. These technologies combine several applications and services that we use

nowadays including Bluetooth, WiFi, WLAN, WiMAX, UWB and many others.

Cognitive radio is one of the potential use of reconfigurable antenna

employing wideband-narrowband mode. It is a smart technology that soon predicted

would replace the current technology by enabling a single device serving for many

communication applications. Cognitive radio definition as approved by IEEE and

Software Define Radio (SDR) Forum as a system that is aware of its surrounding and

can make decision about their operating behavior upon the current situation [2].

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1.2 Background of Study

Reconfigurable antenna has been implemented in a system whereby multiple

radiation properties are required from a single element. Reconfigurable antenna has

been applied in various applications including cellular system, Multiple Input

Multiple Output (MIMO) communication [3], cognitive radio, military applications

and plug and play reconfigurable satellites. The antenna has been incorporated in

mobile devices [4,5] in response to high demand for multiple services being

incorporated in one device such as for WiFi/WLAN connectivity, Bluetooth, FM

Radio, Global Positioning System (GPS), and pentaband cellular services. A five

band reconfigurable antenna has been developed in [6] to cover 5 cellular radio

frequency bands for global operation. It also has been applied to laptops [7] and base

station [8] whereas it has to operate at different frequencies for different services.

Reconfigurable antenna can be classified into four categories based on

previous work and is categorized based on its reconfigurable properties. The first one

is frequency reconfigurable antenna [9, 10, and 11], the second one is reconfigurable

radiation pattern antenna [12], the third one is reconfigurable polarization antenna

and the last one is any combination of the mentioned properties [13].

Many techniques have been employed in order to control the antenna

reconfiguration ability. However, fixed reconfiguration and tunable reconfiguration

are the most popular techniques used. In fixed configuration, the frequency,

polarization or beam is changed at fix value using switches like PIN diode, RF-

MEMS or Field Effect Transistor (FET). As for tunable configuration, the frequency,

polarization or beam is smoothly changed from specific range. It is implemented

using lumped elements integrated into microstrip for example, varactor diodes.

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1.3 Problem Statement

For the multimode terminal to be realized, it needs to be able to operate in

multi frequency. However, a receiver in this system may be susceptible to

interference from other devices in range that operates in the same or neighboring

frequencies; thus the efficiency of the receiver could be compromised. In addition,

the impedance bandwidth of UWB system span from the range of 3GHz to 10.6GHz.

This wide bandwidth includes the operating frequency of WLAN and WiMAX

which may interfere with the UWB system at the receiver.

Moreover, fast growing in telecommunication market with increasing users

and services has led to the congestion in the available bandwidth. Even with today’s

existing users and application, almost all the available spectrum has already been

occupied, thus the allocation for new users and applications would pose a major

problem to the already congested spectrum. Hence, a frequency agile antenna such as

wideband antenna that can be reconfigured to operate at a specific frequency is

desirable to reduce the interference level [2].

1.4 Objectives

The objectives of this project are:

1. To design a reconfigurable Archimedean spiral antenna that can be switched

between wideband-narrowband configurations at wide bandwidth of 2GHz to

8GHz and narrow bandwidth at 5.8GHz for WiMAX applications.

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1.5 Scopes of Project

The scopes of this project include the design of slot resonator that forms a

filter to be implemented to Archimedean spiral antenna as a wideband antenna. The

design of the antenna with a reconfigure capability is simulated with CST

Microwave Studio 2010 and is fabricated on FR4 photo resist board by chemical

etching technique. The antenna characteristics and performance such as its operating

bandwidth, gain, axial ratio and radiation pattern are justified through the simulation

results and measurements from the fabricated antenna.

1.6 Thesis Organization

This thesis is organized into five chapters:

Chapter I briefly describes the introduction of the thesis. It covers topics

such as the context, problem statement, objectives and scope of the project.

Chapter II explains the literature review of the topics related to this

research work. Three main topics have been highlighted which are types of available

reconfigurable antenna, filter theory and design structure, and Archimedean spiral

antenna.

Chapter III explains the methodology of the project. This chapter will

briefly explicate the design process of slot resonator to filter the antenna from broad

impedance bandwidth to narrow bandwidth. The fabrication and measurements

process and techniques are presented in this chapter.

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Chapter IV presents the results obtained from the simulation. These results

are analyzed and discussed in detail. Here the results before and after implementation

of slot resonator are explained in detailed.

Chapter V presents the conclusion and recommendations or suggestions

for future work.

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