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Spiraphase-type leaky-wave structure

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  • Daniel Seseña-Martinez
  • Jorge Rodriguez-Cuevas
  • Jose I. Martinez-Lopez
  • Alexander E. Martynyuk

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A leaky-wave structure (LWS) based on two stacked spiraphase-type reflectarrays (RAs) is analysed in this paper. Each RA contains capacitively loaded ring slot elements arranged at the nodes of a square periodic grid. The proposed LWS performs frequency scanning of a conical beam by changing the cone aperture angle 2θ0. Furthermore, the reconfiguration of the radiation pattern can be achieved by rotating the RA elements. Four Ka-band LWSs with different angular positions of the capacitive loads at the top RA were designed, fabricated and tested to demonstrate the pattern reconfiguration capability. A full-wave mathematical model was used to optimize the reflectarray elements and a simplified mathematical model was developed to predict the radiation characteristics of the whole structure. It was experimentally proven that frequency sweep from 36.37 to 39.9 GHz leads to the change of the angle θ0 from 0° to 38°. The increment of θ0 from 0° to 23° at 36.4 GHz was observed, when the reactive loads of the ring-slot elements at the top RA were rotated on the angle 18°. Good agreement between theoretical predictions and measurements was observed.

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  • Daniel Seseña-Martinez & Jorge Rodriguez-Cuevas & Jose I. Martinez-Lopez & Alexander E. Martynyuk, 2017. "Spiraphase-type leaky-wave structure," Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 561-576, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tewaxx:v:31:y:2017:i:6:p:561-576
    DOI: 10.1080/09205071.2017.1296788
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