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Beam-steering antennas are the ideal solution for a variety of system applications, it is most commonly achieved through using phased arrays, where phase shifters are used to control the relative of the main-beam. In this paper, a low-cost directive beam-steering phased array (DBS-PA) antenna using switched line phase shifters is demonstrated. The proposed DBS-PA antenna has four micro-strip patch antennas, three power dividers and four phase shifters printed on the same Rogers RT-Durroid substrate with a dielectric constant of 2.2 with dimensions of 8 × 3.5 cm. The phased array antenna has a directivity of 11.92 dBi and the main beam direction can be switched between the angles of ±25° with a 3 dB beam-width of 23°. All design and simulations have been carried out using Ansoft HFSS software tool. The frequency considered for the operation is 10 GHz.
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Our sincere thanks to the Faculty of Science and Technology, Hassan II University, Casablanca-Mohammedia, Morocco, for providing us an opportunity to carry out our said work in a well-equipped laboratory (EEA & TI). We are also thankful to all our colleagues who helped us while we were working on this project.
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Errifi, H., Baghdad, A., Badri, A., Sahel, A. (2016). Directive Beam-Steering Patch Array Antenna Using Simple Phase Shifter. In: El Oualkadi, A., Choubani, F., El Moussati, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Mediterranean Conference on Information & Communication Technologies 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 380. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7_3
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