Experimental demonstration of a single layer tri-band circularly polarized reflectarray

Author

Yu, A. ; Yang, F. ; Elsherbeni, A.Z. ; Huang, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

11-17 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a single-layer tri-band circularly polarized reflectarray prototype is designed, fabricated, and measured. The proposed design is composed of three sub-arrays, which operate in the frequency ranges centered at 7.1 GHz (C-band), 8.4 GHz (X-band), and 32 GHz (Ka-band), respectively. In term of the phase compensation scheme, the varied element size (VES) technique is applied to the C-band, along with the element rotation (ER) technique for both X-band and Ka-band. The measurement result of the prototype demonstrates the viability of the single-layer multi-band concept for reflectarray antenna design.

Keywords

antenna arrays; multifrequency antennas; reflector antennas; element rotation technique; frequency 32 GHz; frequency 7.1 GHz; frequency 8.4 GHz; phase compensation scheme; single layer triband circularly polarized reflectarray; varied element size technique; Apertures; Broadband antennas; Microstrip antennas; Prototypes; Reflection; Reflector antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2010.5562303

Filename

5562303