Substrate Integrated Metamaterial-Based Leaky-Wave Antenna With Improved Boresight Radiation Bandwidth

Author

Nasimuddin ; Zhi Ning Chen ; Xianming Qing

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infocomm Res., A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore

Volume

61

Issue

7

fYear

2013

fDate

7/1/2013 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

3451

Lastpage

3457

Abstract

A substrate integrated metamaterial-based leaky-wave antenna is proposed to improve its boresight radiation bandwidth. The proposed leaky-wave antenna based on a composite right/left-handed substrate integrated waveguide consists of two leaky-wave radiator elements which are with different unit cells. The dual-element antenna prototype features boresight gain of 12.0 dBi with variation of 1.0 dB over the frequency range of 8.775-9.15 GHz or 4.2%. In addition, the antenna is able to offer a beam scanning from to with frequency from 8.25 GHz to 13.0 GHz.

Keywords

leaky wave antennas; metamaterial antennas; microwave antennas; substrate integrated waveguides; beam scanning; boresight radiation bandwidth; composite right-left-handed waveguide; dual-element antenna; frequency 8.25 GHz to 13.0 GHz; leaky-wave antenna; leaky-wave radiator elements; substrate integrated metamaterial; substrate integrated waveguide; Beam scanning; leaky-wave antenna; metamaterial; substrate integrated waveguide; wideband boresight radiation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2013.2256094

Filename

6492238