Dual-polarized unit-cell element for wide-angle electronically beam-scanning reflectarray

Author

Chong Zhang ; Gao Wei ; Jianzhou Li ; Fan Qin ; Gao, Smith

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

457

Lastpage

460

Abstract

A dual-polarised slot antenna unit cell overlaid by a low-k dielectric slab is presented for beam scanning folded reflectarray. This unit cell is designed using multilayer PCB technology and intended to operate in C-band. The unit cell structure is composed of one central cavity-backed square looped slot and surrounding single I-bar slots sharing two public feeding structures. The simulated results demonstrate the proposed unit cell achieves -60 degree to +60 degree scanning angle in both E-plane and H-plane within 4% bandwidth.

Keywords

antenna feeds; electromagnetic wave polarisation; printed circuits; reflectarray antennas; scanning antennas; slabs; slot antenna arrays; C-band; E-plane; H-plane; central cavity-backed square looped slot; dual-polarised slot antenna unit cell; low-k dielectric slab; multilayer PCB technology; public feeding structure; single I-bar slot; wideangle electronically beam scanning folded reflectarray; Bandwidth; Couplings; Dielectrics; Layout; Ports (Computers); Reflector antennas; Slabs; dual-polarised; reflectrray; unit-cell; wide-angle beamscanning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2014 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2014.6996423

Filename

6996423