Flat Reflectarray That Generates Adjacent Beams by Discriminating in Dual Circular Polarization

One planar 18 \times 18 cm2 reflectarray prototype, capable of generating adjacent pencil beams with the orthogonal circular polarizations (CPs) in the Ka-band (19.2-20.2 GHz), has been designed, manufactured, and measured as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the possibility of beam separation in th...

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Autores: Florencio, Rafael, Encinar, Jose A., Rodríguez Boix, Rafael, Barba, Mariano, Toso, Giovanni
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/142434
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/142434
https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2019.2905676
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Circular polarization (CP)
Dipole arrays
Dual-polarized antennas
Reflectarrays
Satellite communications
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Sumario:One planar 18 \times 18 cm2 reflectarray prototype, capable of generating adjacent pencil beams with the orthogonal circular polarizations (CPs) in the Ka-band (19.2-20.2 GHz), has been designed, manufactured, and measured as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate the possibility of beam separation in the dual-CP applications. The prototype exhibits main beams pointing at elevation angles of 16.7° and 21.3° for left-hand CP and right-hand CP, respectively. A 1.5 dB gain variation and 66% of efficiency are achieved in the frequency band 19.2-20.2 GHz for a design center frequency of 19.7 GHz. These results will be useful for the future work, involving the design of multispot dual-CP and dual-band planar reflectarrays.