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Design and Exploration of Plane-Wave Horn Antenna Based on Metasurface

  • Ran Ji
  • , Yan Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Southeast University, Nanjing

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Abstract

A plane-wave horn antenna is designed by loading a metasurface onto the aperture of a pyramid horn antenna. The metasurface is comprised of discrete phase-control elements, which can modulate the incident wave radiated by the horn antenna into a desired plane wave. The phase distribution on the horn aperture is firstly sampled and the corresponding root mean square error (RMSE) caused by different sampling intervals is investigated. Then, the phase-shifting unit-cell is designed accordingly, which is comprised four identical layers of substrate with printed metal Jerusalem cross. A phase shifting greater than 261° can be achieved by tuning the geometrical size of the Jerusalem cross. A prototype is exemplified at 28 GHz with an available horn antenna. Through numerical simulation and experimental measurement, it is verified that the outgoing plane wave has a phase fluctuation smaller than 10° over the aperture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, ICMMT 2023 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9798350338874
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, ICMMT 2023 - Qingdao, China
Duration: 14 May 202317 May 2023

Publication series

Name2023 International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, ICMMT 2023 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, ICMMT 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period14/05/2317/05/23

Keywords

  • discrete phase compensation
  • metasurface
  • millimeter wave
  • plane wave

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