Electronically steered metasurface antenna

Low Cost Electronically Steered Antenna and Receiver System for Mobile Satellite Communications

The design, construction and basic characteristics of an electronically steered, adaptive phased array antenna for land mobile satellite communications are described. The antenna system includes an array of six microstrip stacked patch antennas, each connected to an RF channel, which include an MMIC Low Noise Amplifier and a commercial silicon monolithic I-Q modulator. A 6-way microstrip combin...

Low Cost Electronically Steered Phase Arrays for Weather Applications

An Electronically Switchable Leaky Wave Antenna

We report an electronically switchable dielectric leaky wave antenna. The main beam angle can be electronically steered using p-i-n diodes. The diodes are used as switches to control the radiation from two sets of gratings with different periods, thereby switching the main beam angle. Beam steering is achieved at a single fixed frequency; no frequency sweeping is necessary. A microwave prototyp...

Electronically Steerable planer Phased Array Antenna

A planar phased-array antenna has been constructed from a 15x15 square grid of z-directed monopoles with a length of 0.475 λ, element spacing of 0.29 λ, average directivity of 20.0 dBi across all scan angles, an average H-plane HPBW of 37 degrees, an average E-plane HPBW of 23 degrees, and an efficiency of 99.6%. Two current distributions are tested: uniform and binomial. The binomial current d...

A New Metasurface Superstrate Structure for Antenna Performance Enhancement

A new metasurface superstrate structure (MSS)-loaded dual band microstrip line-fed small patch antenna is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna was designed on a ceramic-filled bioplastic sandwich substrate with a high dielectric constant. The proposed 7 × 6 element, square-shaped, single-sided MSS significantly improved the bandwidth and gain of the proposed antenna. The proposed MSS i...