A double beam radiated leaky wave antenna composed of left-handed slab loaded hybrid waveguide using planar technology

Author

Huang, Meng ; Xu, Shanjia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 April 2008

Firstpage

1825

Lastpage

1828

Abstract

A novel leaky wave antenna with double radiation beam composed of left-handed slab loaded hybrid waveguide using planar technology is proposed, and its leaky characteristics are investigated with a method, which the multimode network theory is combined with rigorous mode-matching method. The investigation reveals that the structure supports two leaky modes corresponding to the forward and the backward radiations respectively. It demonstrates that the new leaky wave antenna is of desirable property that can radiate both forward and backward directions simultaneously with quite simple configuration.

Keywords

leaky wave antennas; planar antennas; planar waveguides; backward radiations; double beam radiated leaky wave antenna; double radiation beam; left-handed slab loaded hybrid waveguide; mode-matching method; multimode network theory; planar technology; Leaky wave antennas; Loaded waveguides; Millimeter wave technology; Mode matching methods; Optical materials; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Rectangular waveguides; Slabs; Waveguide theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2008. ICMMT 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1879-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1880-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2008.4540835

Filename

4540835