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Design and Analysis of a Reflectarray Using Slot Antenna Elements for Ka-band SatCom

Luo, Qi, Gao, Steven, Zhang, Chong, Zhou, Dawei, Chaloun, Tobias, Menzel, Wolfgang, Ziegler, Volker, Sobhy, Mohammed (2015) Design and Analysis of a Reflectarray Using Slot Antenna Elements for Ka-band SatCom. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 63 (4). pp. 1365-1374. ISSN 0018-926X. (doi:10.1109/TAP.2015.2401393) (KAR id:50989)

Abstract

This paper presents a folded reflectarray designed for Ka-band satellite communication applications. The array element is a dual-polarized slot antenna with multilayered PCB structure and is designed to operate at 29.5-30.8 GHz band for both transmitting and receiving with single linear polarization. Vias are employed to suppress the surface wave propagation and reduce the mutual coupling between adjacent array elements, for achieving a reflectarray with a wide scan angle range. An equivalent circuit model for the array element is developed and it agrees well with the EM simulation results. Several passive demonstrators consisting of 116 elements spaced by 0.5?30GHz were fabricated and measured. The experimental results show that the presented reflectarray is capable of steering the beam up to ±60° in both Eand H-planes with low cross-polarization level.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/TAP.2015.2401393
Uncontrolled keywords: Arrays, Slot antennas, Stripline, Integrated circuit modeling, Microstrip, Microstrip antennas
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2015 13:11 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 13:28 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/50989 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Gao, Steven.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7402-9223
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Sobhy, Mohammed.

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