A Review of Recent Advances in Designing True-Time-Delay Microwave Lenses Exploiting Metamaterials with Non-Resonant Constituting Unit Cells
Keywords:
Frequency selective surfaces, microwave lenses, multi-beam antennas, phasedarray antennasAbstract
This paper presents a review of recent developments in the design of planar microwave lenses capable of operating over broad bandwidths in a true-time-delay fashion. The lenses discussed in this paper consist of planar apertures populated with miniature, sub-wavelength time-delay units. Each time delay unit is the unit cell of an appropriately-designed Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) with non-resonant, sub-wavelength constituting unit cells and is designed to provide a constant time-delay unit over the frequency range at which the lens operates. Designs that exploit both band-pass and low-pass FSSs are presented and discussed. Because of the non-resonant nature of their constituting unit cells and their small dimensions, such lenses can operate over broad bandwidths with wide fields of views. When used in conjunction with appropriately designed feed antennas, these lenses can be used in multi-beam, high-gain, broadband antenna apertures.
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