Polarization-Diverse Holographic Metasurfaces

This letter presents the design and fabrication of polarization-diverse metasurface leaky-wave antennas that are composed of simple isotropic square patches. Multiple vertical monopoles are employed to excite the metasurface. Each source, or a combination of sources, is designed to enable the metasu...

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Published in:IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters 2019-02, Vol.18 (2), p.264-268
Main Authors: Ramalingam, Subramanian, Balanis, Constantine A., Birtcher, Craig R., Shaman, Hussein N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antenna radiation patterns
Antennas
Apertures
Circular polarization
Frequency scanning
holography
Horizontal polarization
Impedance
Leaky waves
leaky-wave antennas
Metasurfaces
Modulation
Pencil beams
Polarization
polarization-diverse antennas
Substrates
Surface impedance
Surface waves
Vertical polarization
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Summary:This letter presents the design and fabrication of polarization-diverse metasurface leaky-wave antennas that are composed of simple isotropic square patches. Multiple vertical monopoles are employed to excite the metasurface. Each source, or a combination of sources, is designed to enable the metasurface to form a pencil beam with the desired horizontal, vertical, or circular polarization. A prototype of the antenna was realized, using a 3.175 mm thick substrate of dielectric constant 2.2, to operate at 12 GHz. It is also shown that, by employing only backward leaky waves to form the pencil beam, frequency scanning with a much larger scan-angle range can be achieved.
ISSN:1536-1225
1548-5757
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2018.2888811