Reconfigurable printed antenna arrays for mm-wave applications

This work presents a numerical investigation of high-gain reconfigurable printed antenna arrays for mm-waves wireless applications of broadband mobile communication. Two compact structures with reconfigurable radiation based on four broadside microstrip arrays of six elements are presented: the first one is a planar array with gain up to 20dBi; the second is tree-dimensional printed array with gain up to 15dBi. In order to estimate the electromagnetic performance of these antennas, a numerical analyzes were performed by ANSYS HFSS, which employs the Finite Element Method (FEM).