Beam-squint minimization in series-slotted waveguide array antennas using double negative materials
✍ Scribed by Soon-Soo Oh; Lotfollah Shafai
- Book ID
- 102518556
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-2477
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A 5 × 1 series‐slotted waveguide array antenna partly filled with double positive (DPS) and double negative (DNG) materials is investigated. The DNG material has a negative wave vector and its guided‐wavelength equals that of the DPS material. Two simple straight slotted waveguides, one filled only with the DPS material and the other with both DPS and DNG materials, are designed and studied. It is found that the latter waveguide has repeated voltage standing wave shapes. This unique characteristic is utilized to minimize the beam squinting effect in the series‐fed array antennas. It is shown that in a 5 × 1 array using both DPS and DNG materials, the variation in the direction of its beam and boresight gain are limited to 0.5 ° and 0.8 dB, respectively, within a 10% frequency band. In the corresponding conventional array these parameters were 5 ° beam tilt and 3.3 dB boresight gain loss. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 48: 1789–1792, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.21800