Leaky Wave Antenna Based on Evanescent-Mode Left-Handed Transmission Lines Composed of a Cut-Off Parallel-Plate Waveguide Loaded with Dielectric Resonators

2007 ◽  
Vol E90-C (9) ◽  
pp. 1770-1775 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. UEDA ◽  
N. MICHISHITA ◽  
A. LAI ◽  
T. ITOH
2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 3687-3694 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Garcia-Vigueras ◽  
José Luis Gomez-Tornero ◽  
George Goussetis ◽  
Andrew R. Weily ◽  
Y. Jay Guo

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Eberspächer ◽  
T. F. Eibert

Abstract. An antenna comprising two different composite right/left-handed transmission line structures is proposed which enables easy beam steering at an operation frequency of 10 GHz. The composite right/left-handed transmission lines are based on planar, periodically arranged via free unit cells, implemented in microstrip technology. Both transmission lines exhibit the infinite wavelength phenomenon which occurs at 9.72 GHz and 9.89 GHz, respectively. Thus, operating the different leaky wave structures at 10 GHz, radiation with azimuth angles of ±8° and ±17° can be achieved depending on the selected input port. In order to obtain a tunable main beam direction, the radiation patterns of both structures are superimposed by feeding them simultaneously. The influence of each guiding structure, and hence the direction of the main beam, can be controlled via the feeding amplitude. As a result of this, the beam can be steered between ±17° with a gain of up to 10 dBi. The guiding structures are arranged in parallel with a clearance of a=12.2 mm which is less than half of the wavelength in free space. This allows in a further step the attachment of additional guiding structures in order to increase the tunable angle range or creating an antenna array with a small beamwidth in the elevation plane without the occurrence of grating lobes. An antenna prototype was fabricated and validated by measurements.


CLEO: 2014 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. McKinney ◽  
Yasuaki Monnai ◽  
Rajind Mendis ◽  
Daniel M. Mittleman

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