1. ANTENNA APPLICATIONS USING MEMS TECHNOLOGIES.
- Author
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Pîrloagă, Marian
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MICROELECTROMECHANICAL systems , *ANTENNAS (Electronics) , *CONFIGURATION management , *NANOTECHNOLOGY , *NANOSTRUCTURED materials , *RADIO frequency - Abstract
The developments in MEMS (Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems) have shown a large technological approaches for enchance reconfigurable antenna systems. In this paper discuss some aspects to design reconfigurable antenna and presents new solutions using MEMS technologies like switches and reconfigurable radiating elements. It is shown the beneficts can be expected with reconfigurable antennas in military domain. The paper reviewed the main research work published and finnaly the MEMS technologies have generated a new class of antennas that are mechanically-steerable. For the future interesting developments are nanotechnologies and nanomaterials, including nanodevices, who can enable a large functionalities on reconfigurable surfaces or in the milimeter-wave frequencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011