• DocumentCode
    3863262
  • Title

    Electrically steerable leaky-wave antenna capable of both forward and backward radiation based on liquid crystal

  • Author

    Yan Gao;Yue-Long Lyu;Fan-Yi Meng;Qun Wu

  • Author_Institution
    Harbin Institute of Technology, 92 Xidazhi Street Harbin, 150001 China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a electrically beam scanning leaky-wave antenna (LWA) based on composite right/left-handed (CRLH) rectangular waveguide (RWG) is presented. In the proposed LWA, liquid crystal (LC) is chosen as tunable material, which could be controlled by applied electric and magnetic field. The beam of LWA proposed can be steered at a fixed frequency as the electromagnetic parameters of LC change under different bias voltages. The designed antenna supports the backward-to-forward beam scanning. It is found from simulations that the antenna has a beam scanning angle from -19° to 12° at 9.7 GHz.
  • Keywords
    "Decision support systems","Chlorine","Antenna theory","Rectangular waveguides","Waveguide theory"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference (APMC), 2015 Asia-Pacific
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-8765-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMC.2015.7413163
  • Filename
    7413163