DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF

RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY IN SLOT RING

ANTENNA

CU5311 – DISSERTATION 1
(PHASE I REPORT)

Submitted by

PRAVEEN KUMAR M

in partial fulfilment for the award of the degree of

MASTER OF ENGINEERING IN
COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND

COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

NOVEMBER 2020
 ABSTRACT

A frequency reconfigurable slot ring antenna switching between L-band and

C – band is designed. The aperture of an L – band slot ring antenna can be
reconfigured to a C – band slot ring antenna array. This antenna operates at 1.7 GHz
with a fractional bandwidth in L – band and 5.6 GHz with fractional bandwidth in
C band operating state. This shared-aperture antenna is scalable to a larger array with
element spacing of less than half-wavelength in both frequency band.

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