Abstract
A beam-switching antenna for millimetre-wave applications at 30 GHz is presented in this study. The radiation reconfigurability for a cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is obtained by using a cantilever-enabled frequency selective surface (FSS). The proposed cantilever-enabled FSS provides reconfigurable bandpass and band-stop performance with good isolation between them. The investigation of designed FSS is performed using electromagnetic simulation and an array of the proposed FSS unit cell is fabricated and measured using the free-space measurement method, which shows a good agreement with the simulation results. Finally, six panels of the 1 × 5 array of the proposed reconfigurable FSS are arranged in a hexagonal configuration around a cylindrical DRA to obtain a reconfigurable radiation pattern in the azimuth plane. A prototype of the proposed radiation reconfigurable DRA is fabricated and the switching radiation patterns are measured at 30 GHz.
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