Experimental Validation of a Reflectarray Antenna in Ka-band

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作者
Encinar, J. A. [1 ]
Barba, M. [1 ]
Page, J. E. [1 ]
Arrebola, M. [2 ]
Pacheco, A. [3 ]
van't Klooster, K. [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Politecn Madrid, Dep Electromagnetism & Circuit Theory, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Oviedo, Dept Elect Engn, Gijon, Spain
[3] EADS CASA Espacio, Madrid, Spain
[4] European Space Agcy ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
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Reflectarray antenna; multi-layer reflectaray; Ka-band antennas;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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摘要
A reflectarray antenna that provides a focused beam in Ka band has been designed, manufactured and tested. The antenna demonstrator has been made up using two layers of patches printed on Kapton, which are bonded to low-loss prepreg quartz materials. The effect of the manufacturing tolerance errors in the dimensions and dielectric properties of the materials have been evaluated. A good concordance is achieved between simulations and measurements after taking into account the deviation in dimensions and dielectric constant. The measured 18-cm antenna provides a gain better than 33 dB in a frequency band from 31 GHz to 34 GHz.
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