Testing and development of doubly curved piezoceramic aperture antennas

Hwan-Sik Yoon; Gregory N. Washington

doi:10.1117/12.354263

20 July 1999 Testing and development of doubly curved piezoceramic aperture antennas

Proceedings Volume 3673, Smart Structures and Materials 1999: Smart Electronics and MEMS; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354263
Event: 1999 Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 1999, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Recently, singly curved smart antennas that have the ability of changing their reflector shape through the use of piezoelectric actuators have been studied. The results show that those antennas have the ability to steer and shape radiation patterns in the far-field. As an extension of the previous work, this study examines the use of `doubly curved'--spherical--antenna structures to achieve better performance in controlling an antenna's coverage area. The spherical antenna is made of a thin plastic shell with a small hole at the apex for base mounting. As actuators, four PZT strip patches are attached along the meridians separated by 90 degrees respectively. The antenna structure is modeled following Reissner's shallow spherical shell theory, and the forces developed by the PZT actuators are applied as the boundary conditions at the outer edge. The deformed shape of the antenna is calculated with respect to the applied voltage and the far-field radiation pattern for the shape is simulated on the computer. Based on the theoretical work, an actual working model of the doubly curved antenna is built. Several experiments with the model verify that the beam steering and beam shaping mode can be achieved in the real situation.

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Hwan-Sik Yoon and Gregory N. Washington "Testing and development of doubly curved piezoceramic aperture antennas", Proc. SPIE 3673, Smart Structures and Materials 1999: Smart Electronics and MEMS, (20 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354263

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