• DocumentCode
    2775068
  • Title

    Wideband aperture-coupled reflectarrays with reduced inter-element spacing

  • Author

    Venneri, F. ; Costanzo, S. ; Di Massa, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Calabria, Rende
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    5-11 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The bandwidth features of aperture-coupled reflectarrays are analyzed by varying the spacing between adjacent elements in the array grid. A bandwidth enlargement is obtained by reducing the reflectarray unit cell size. The wideband behavior is demonstrated through the comparison of phase curves as a function of the operating frequency for various lengths of the tuning stub. As further validation, the gain against frequency is calculated to compare bandwidth features of two 20 GHz reflectarray prototypes with different cell size.
  • Keywords
    broadband antennas; microstrip antenna arrays; reflector antennas; bandwidth enlargement; cell size; inter-element spacing; wideband aperture-coupled reflectarrays; Apertures; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Delay; Frequency; Microstrip antennas; Prototypes; Reflector antennas; Tuning; Wideband;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2041-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2042-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2008.4619759
  • Filename
    4619759