Abstract

An electrically small, low profile, planar, Huygens dipole antenna with four reconfigurable polarization states is presented. The design incorporates both electric and magnetic near-field resonant parasitic elements and a reconfigurable driven element. The four polarization states include two orthogonal linear polarized (LP) and two circular polarization (LHCP and RHCP) states. A 1.5 GHz prototype was fabricated (partially with 3-D additive manufacturing), assembled, and tested. The measured results, in good agreement with their simulated values, demonstrate that even with its simple configuration, electrically small size ( $ka =0.944$ ), and low-profile height ( $0.0449\lambda _{0}$ ), this reconfigurable Huygens antenna possesses stable broadside radiation performance in all of its four polarization states. The measured results demonstrate that in its $x(y)$ -LP state, the peak realized gain, front-to-back ratio, and radiation efficiency values are, respectively, ~3303 dBi (2.97 dBi), ~10.7 dB (9.9 dB), and ~68.2% (67.5%). For the LHCP (RHCP) states, they are, respectively, ~2.82 dBi (2.74 dBi), ~11.4 dB (12.5 dB), and ~67.1% (65.9%).

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