Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
Volume 70, Issue 9, Pages 8086-8099Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3168278
Keywords
Attenuator; independent control; phase shifter; programmable transmitarray antenna
Funding
- Foundation Strengthening Program Technology Field Fund [2020-JCJQ-JJ-266]
- General Technical Research Project [20201116-0155-001-001]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61901113, 61801262]
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A design method of programmable transmitarray antenna with independent controls of transmission amplitude and phase is proposed in C-band. Experimental results show that the designed antenna has good performance and functionality at the operating frequency.
A design method of programmable transmitarray antenna with independent controls of transmission amplitude and phase is proposed in C-band. The unit cell with cascaded structures mainly consists of four parts, including the receiving antenna, reconfigurable attenuator with p-i-n diodes, reconfigurable phase shifter with varactors, and transmitting antenna. Correspondingly, various manipulations of spatial electromag netic (EM) fields are achieved by varying the bias voltages of p-i-n diodes and varactors in the transmitarray antenna. The fabricated unit cell is measured in a standard waveguide, and the whole array with 8 x 8 unit cells is measured with two horns for calibration of the programmable EM features. The experimental results show that the transmission amplitude can range from -16 to -3.6 dB, and the transmission phase achieves 270 degrees coverage independently at the operating frequency of 5.67 GHz under 16 bit programmable control. To further exhibit the capability and functionality of the proposed transmitarray antenna, the waveform engineering of adaptive beamforming and power-allocation beamforming is separately realized in the experiment. The measured results have good agreements with our theoretical calculations, verifying the validity of our design method.
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