Dynamic Beam Shaping Using a Dual-Band Electronically Tunable Reflectarray Antenna

DOI10.1109/TAP.2015.2456939MaRDI QIDQ4587365zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Tayebi, Junyan Tang, Pavel Roy Paladhi, Lalita Udpa, Satish S. Udpa, E. J. Rothwell

Publication date 30 October 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03914

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12)

Abstract: An electronically reconfigurable dual-band-reflectarray antenna is presented in this paper. The tunable unit cell, a ring loaded square patch with a single varactor diode connected across the gap between the ring and the patch, is modeled using both a full-wave solver and an equivalent circuit. The parameters of the equivalent circuit are calculated independently of the simulation and experiment using analysis techniques employed in frequency selective surfaces. The reflection phase of the proposed unit cell is shown to provide an excellent phase range of 335${}^{circ}$ in F band and 340${}^{circ}$ in S band. Results from the analysis are used to design and build a 10x10 element reflectarray antenna. The high tuning phase range of each element allows the fabricated reflectarray to demonstrate a very broad steering range of up to $pm$60${}^{circ}$ in both frequency bands.

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