Optically reconfigurable unit cell for Ka‐band reflectarray antennas

Optically reconfigurable unit cell for Ka-band reflectarray antennas

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...

Design of a Reconfigurable Reflectarray Unit Cell for Wide Angle Beam-Steering Radar Applications

A reconfigurable aperture-coupled reflectarray element is proposed for the realization of beam steering antennas, suitable for radar applications. Each reflectarray element is coupled to a microstrip line, which is loaded by a single varactor diode acting as a phase shifter element, thus providing a continuously variable reflection phase. A reduced size reflectarray unit cell is properly design...

Equivalent circuit of a reconfigurable triple-slot reflectarray cell

Abstract : This paper presents an equivalent model for a multiple-resonance reflectarray cell. It allows predicting the different phase-states of the cell from only a very few full-wave simulations. Demonstrations are first given for a passive cell where different geometrical parameters are varied. Then, the approach is generalized to a reconfigurable cell. Finally, a canonical reflectarray wit...