Viswanadh Raviteja Gudivada, Yi Huang, Elliot L. Bennett
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Abstract
The authors propose a novel yet simple way of passive beamforming using a liquid antenna. A hemispherical dielectric resonator antenna filled with a dielectric liquid is considered to realise the fundamental TE111 mode, and a small, weighted metal ball is dropped inside the hemispherical container. This metal ball functions as a movable director and passively steers the realised fundamental mode of the DRA always towards the ground. The proposed design finds its applications in static-subject-based applications such as indoor base stations, and beam-stabilisation/pattern-correction works in case of dynamic-subject-based applications. The overall profile of the antenna is 0.60λ0 × 0.60λ0 × 0.19λ0 targeting the ISM band at 2.4 GHz with decent efficiency and far-field characteristics. The working prototype is developed and experimentally verified.
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