Title :
Investigation of the effect of reflect array element periodicity on aperture efficiency
Author :
Safari, Faezeh ; Shafai, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Abstract :
In this paper the effect of reflect array element periodicity on its aperture efficiency is investigated. It is shown that for a fixed aperture size the smaller the element periodicity is, the better the aperture efficiency will be.
Keywords :
aperture antennas; reflectarray antennas; aperture efficiency; reflect array antenna; reflect array element periodicity effect; Substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5315-1
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2013.6711332
