High-Efficiency Polarizer Reflectarray Antennas for Data Transmission Links from a CubeSat

Aperture Efficiency Analysis of Reflectarray Antennas

In the design procedure of a reflectarray antenna system, the aperture efficiency needs to be first analyzed to forecast the system performance. This article investigates the effects of the reflectarray configuration parameters on the antenna aperture efficiency. A general approach is introduced to calculate the spillover efficiency of a reflectarray with arbitrarily shaped aperture and feed sc...

Transmission Line Model for Slot-coupled Microstrip Reflectarray Antennas

A transmission line model is adopted for the analysis of slot-coupled microstrip reflectarrays. The current on the equivalent impedance for the single radiating element is used to obtain the reflectarray phase design curve. Computational costs are drastically reduced with respect to theoretical full-wave analysis. Numerical and experimental validations are presented on the phase curve useful fo...

Reflectarray Antennas

Printed reflectarrays combine certain advantages of reflector antennas and phased arrays. One major hurdle in the designing of reflectarrays is the compensation of phase difference between various elements. This paper presents reviews of various techniques for phase compensation, like using variable sizes of the patch, adding stubs of variable lengths and use of variable size slots on the groun...

Reflectarray antennas for terahertz communications

Reflectarrays composed of resonant microstrip gold patches on a dielectric substrate are demonstrated for operation at terahertz frequencies. Based on the relation between the patch size and the reflection phase, a progressive phase distribution is implemented on the patch array to create a reflector able to deflect an incident beam towards a predefined angle off the specular direction. In orde...

Optically reconfigurable unit cell for Ka-band reflectarray antennas