期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION
卷 66, 期 2, 页码 533-540出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2017.2772311
关键词
Antennas; reflectarrays; tightly coupled arrays; wideband antennas; wideband reflectarrays
资金
- U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N032497/1]
- EPSRC [EP/N032497/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N032497/1] Funding Source: researchfish
A novel ultra-wide-band tightly coupled dipole reflectarray (TCDR) antenna is presented in this paper. This reflectarray antenna consists of a wideband feed and a wideband reflecting surface. The feed is a log-periodic dipole array antenna. The reflecting surface consists of 26 x 11 unit cells. Each cell is composed of a tightly coupled dipole and a delay line. The minimum distance between adjacent cells is 8 mm, which is about 1/10 wavelength at the lowest operating frequency. By combining the advantages of reflectarray antennas and those of tightly coupled array antennas, the proposed TCDR antenna achieves ultra-wide bandwidth with reduced complexity and fabrication cost. A method to minimize the phase errors of the wideband reflectarray is also developed and the concept of equivalent distance delay is introduced to design the unit cell elements. To verify the design concept, a prototype operating from 3.4 to 10.6 GHz is simulated and fabricated. Good agreement between simulated and measured results is observed. Within the designed frequency band, the radiation pattern of the TCDR antenna is stable and the main beam of the antenna is not distorted or split. The side lobe levels of the radiation patterns are below -11.7 dB in the entire operating band. It is the first time a tightly coupled reflectarray is reported.
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