Tuning periodic surfaces with piezoelectric actuators

Marina Mavridou; Alexandros Feresidis; Peter Gardner

doi:10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902126

Tuning periodic surfaces with piezoelectric actuators

Marina Mavridou^*, Alexandros Feresidis, Peter Gardner

^*Corresponding author for this work

Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

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Abstract

A periodic surface with tunable phase response is presented here for operation at around 60GHz. The tuning is achieved by means of piezoelectric actuators. The periodic surface consists of a two dimensional square loop metallic elements array printed on a 0.8mm thick dielectric substrate. It is placed at close proximity (50um) over a ground plane creating an air cavity and acting as a High Impedance Surface (HIS). The actuators are employed to produce a displacement between the periodic surface and the ground plane which in turn changes the reflection phase response of the structure. Full wave periodic analysis has been carried out in 3D electromagnetic simulation software (CST Microwave Studio^TM) to extract the reflection characteristics and evaluate the expected tuning range of the proposed structure. A phase shift of 80^o degrees has been achieved at 58.5GHz for a displacement of 15um.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	1731-1734
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9788890701849
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902126
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014 - The Hague, United Kingdom Duration: 6 Apr 2014 → 11 Apr 2014

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Conference	8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	The Hague
Period	6/04/14 → 11/04/14

Keywords

Periodic Surfaces
piezoelectric actuators
tunable

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Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Mavridou, M, Feresidis, A & Gardner, P 2014, Tuning periodic surfaces with piezoelectric actuators. in 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014., 6902126, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1731-1734, 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2014, The Hague, United Kingdom, 6/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902126

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