Dual circularly polarized broadside beam metasurface antenna

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Date
2016Author
Version
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Type
Artículo / Artikulua
Version
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa
Impact
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10.1109/TAP.2016.2562662
Abstract
This paper presents the design of a modulated metasurface (MTS) antenna capable to provide both righthand (RH) and left-hand (LH) circularly polarized (CP) boresight
radiation at Ku-band (13.5 GHz). This antenna is based on the interaction of two cylindrical-wavefront surface wave (SW) modes of transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) types with a rotationally symmetric, anisotropic ...
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This paper presents the design of a modulated metasurface (MTS) antenna capable to provide both righthand (RH) and left-hand (LH) circularly polarized (CP) boresight
radiation at Ku-band (13.5 GHz). This antenna is based on the interaction of two cylindrical-wavefront surface wave (SW) modes of transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) types with a rotationally symmetric, anisotropic-modulated MTS placed on top of a grounded slab. A properly designed centered circular waveguide feed excites the two orthogonal (decoupled) SW modes and guarantees the balance of the power associated with each of them. By a proper selection of the anisotropy and modulation of the MTS pattern, the phase velocities of the two modes are synchronized, and leakage is generated in broadside direction with two orthogonal linear polarizations. When the circular waveguide is excited with two mutually orthogonal
TE11 modes in phase–quadrature, an LHCP or RHCP antenna is obtained. This paper explains the feeding system and the MTS requirements that guarantee the balanced conditions of the TM/TE SWs and consequent generation of dual CP boresight
radiation. [--]
Subject
Antennas,
Dual polarization,
Leaky waves,
Left-hand circular polarization (LHCP),
Metasurfaces (MTSs),
Right-hand circular polarization (RHCP),
Surface impedance,
Surface waves (SWs)
Publisher
IEEE
Published in
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 7, July 2016
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 by COST ACTION IC1102, NEWFOCUS
Research Networking Program and Spanish Ministry of Science and
Innovation (project TEC2013-47753-C3-1-R).