Mechanical 144GHz beam steering with all-metallic epsilon-near-zero lens antenna

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2014Author
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Artículo / Artikulua
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10.1063/1.4903865
Abstract
An all-metallic steerable beam antenna composed of an ε-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterial lens is experimentally demonstrated at 144 GHz (λ0 = 2.083 mm). The ENZ lens is realized by an array of narrow hollow rectangular waveguides working just near and above the cut-off of the TE10 mode. The lens focal arc on the xz-plane is initially estimated analytically as well as numerically and compared with exp ...
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An all-metallic steerable beam antenna composed of an ε-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterial lens is experimentally demonstrated at 144 GHz (λ0 = 2.083 mm). The ENZ lens is realized by an array of narrow hollow rectangular waveguides working just near and above the cut-off of the TE10 mode. The lens focal arc on the xz-plane is initially estimated analytically as well as numerically and compared with experimental results demonstrating good agreement. Next, an open-ended waveguide is placed along the lens focal arc to evaluate the ENZ-lens antenna steerability. A gain scan loss below 3 dB is achieved for angles up to plus/minus 15º. [--]
Subject
ENZ metamaterial,
Metamaterial lens,
Planoconcave lens,
Beam steering
Publisher
AIP Publishing
Published in
Applied Physics Letters 105, 243503 (2014)
Description
The following article appeared in Pacheco-Peña, V., Torres, V., Orazbayev, B., Beruete, M., Sorolla, M., Navarro-Cía, M., & Engheta, N. (2014). Mechanical 144GHz beam steering with all-metallic epsilon-near-zero lens antenna. Applied Physics Letters, 105(24), doi:10.1063/1.4903865, and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4903865.
Departament
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila
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Sponsorship
This work was supported in part by the Spanish
Government under Contract Consolider Engineering
Metamaterials CSD2008-00066 and Contract TEC2011-
28664-C02-01. V.P.-P. is sponsored by Spanish Ministerio
de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte under grant FPU AP-2012-
3796. V.T. is sponsored by the Universidad Publica de
Navarra. B.O. is sponsored by Spanish Ministerio de
Economıa y Competitividad under Grant FPI BES-2012-
054909. M.B. is sponsored by the Spanish Government via
RYC-2011-08221. M.N.-C. is supported by the Imperial
College Junior Research Fellowship.