A Star Shaped Reconfigurable Patch Antenna

This paper presents a star shaped reconfigurable microstrip antenna which exhibits frequency tuning and radiation pattern alteration for different configurations. Switches are suggested to reconfigure the antenna. The antenna is fabricated and measured and simulated results are compared. This antenna can be used in several practical applications according to each configuration. The antenna is then graph modeled and its structure is shown to be not redundant.

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