A RECONFIGURABLE ELECTROMAGNETIC BANDGAP STRUCTURE FOR A BEAM STEERING BASE STATION ANTENNA

The purpose of this communication is to present the works of a French Industry and Research sponsorized project (RNRT Project) named "BIP" [1]. The goal of this project was to design a beam steering multi-band (GSM/DCS/UMTS) base station antenna. After a presentation of the different partners, we will show how we would solved the problem of the beam steering antenna with a controllable Electromagnetic BandGap (EBG) structure and we will present the results of simulations and experiments in order to validate the concept.