Design of an FSS-backed 20/30 GHz circularly polarized reflectarray for shared aperture X/Ka-band satellite applications

Author

Chaharmir, M.R. ; Shaker, Jafar

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2014

fDate

13-16 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

A 20/30GHz Frequency Selective Surface (FSS)-backed reflectarray is introduced in this paper. This reflectarray is designed as part of a shared aperture reflectarray for simultaneous operation at X- and Ka-band. The reflectarray is illuminated with a circularly polarized (CP) feed and the elements are designed to collimate the beam in a desired direction. Separate reflectarrays with frequency selective surface (FSS) as the ground plane was designed for both receive (20 GHz) and transmit (30 GHz) bands. This FSS-backed reflectarray will be located on the top of an X-band reflectarray with a solid ground and the FSS structure is designed to maximize the transmission at X-band.

Keywords

frequency selective surfaces; microwave antenna arrays; polarisation; reflectarray antennas; FSS backed circularly polarized reflectarray; circularly polarized feed; frequency 20 GHz; frequency 30 GHz; frequency selective surface; ground plane; shared aperture satellite applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM), 2014 16th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ANTEM.2014.6887697

Filename

6887697