A RECONFIGURABLE ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURE FOR A BEAM STEERING BASE STATION ANTENNA

Halim Boutayeb (1) , T. Brillat (2) , J.P. Daniel (3) , F. Gadot (2) , P.Y. Garel (4) , A. de Lustrac (2) , Kouroch Mahdjoubi (1) , P. Ratajczak (4) , Anne-Claude Tarot (1)

1 IETR - Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes
2 IEF - Institut d'électronique fondamentale
3 ADVANTEN - Advanced Radio Solutions
4 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement

The purpose of this communication is to present the works of a French Industry and Research sponsorized project (RNRT Project) named "BIP" [1]. The goal of this project was to design a beam steering multi-band (GSM/DCS/UMTS) base station antenna. After a presentation of the different partners, we will show how we would solved the problem of the beam steering antenna with a controllable Electromagnetic BandGap (EBG) structure and we will present the results of simulations and experiments in order to validate the concept.

Domaines: Electromagnétisme

Halim Boutayeb, T. Brillat, J.P. Daniel, F. Gadot, P.Y. Garel, et al.. A RECONFIGURABLE ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURE FOR A BEAM STEERING BASE STATION ANTENNA. Workshop on Innovative Periodic Antennas, Mar 2004, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. pp. 383-389. ⟨hal-00164619⟩