Analysis of a Serrated Ground Plane for a Low-Loss Reflectarray Antenna

作者

  • Jiawei Ren Department of Electrical Engineering CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Hongjian Wang Department of Electrical Engineering CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Weichun Shi Department of Electrical Engineering CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Minzheng Ma Department of Electrical Engineering CAS Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

关键词:

High-accuracy, high gain, low-loss, reflectarray antenna, reflector antenna, serrated ground plane.

摘要

A novel serrated ground plane (NSGP) for na low-loss reflectarray antenna is presented in this paper. Compared with a conventional smooth ground plane (CGP), the NSGP consists of a series of serrated elements, which can reflect the incident waves in the main beam direction, so the losses of the reflectarray can be effectively reduced. The principle and losses of reflectarray antennas are studied and analyzed. Then, a low-loss NSGP is proposed, and two design methods for the NSGP are given in this paper. Finally, a reflectarray antenna with elements arranged in a 15×15 grid is designed, simulated and measured with the NSGP and CGP respectively within the frequency from 12.88 to 13.88GHz. The results show that the reflectarray antenna with the NSGP can effectively utilize the reflected waves and has a maximum higher gain of 0.681 dB compared with the gain of the reflectarray with the CGP. This NSGP has a potential to be used in the high accurate design of the reflectarray which requires to realize beam forming, low-loss, high-efficiency, etc.

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Jiawei Ren was born in Hebei, China, in 1992. He received the B.S. degree from the Hebei University, Hebei, China, in 2015, and the M.S. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and Nation Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 2019. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and Nation Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. His current research interests include reflectarray, microstrip antennas, low-loss antenna, wideband antenna.

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Hongjian Wang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wuhan University, Ph.D. degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. He began his career with the radar group, China Airborne Missile Academy as a Radar Antenna Engineer. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Research Assistant in City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor of the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, Course Professor of University of CAS, Beijing. His current research interests include Space-borne Antenna theory and technology, inflatable/deployable antenna, mm-wave/ Terahertz antenna, mm-wave components, antenna measurement

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Weichun Shi was born in Gansu, China, in 1996. He received the B.S. degree from the Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2018, and he is currently pursuing the M.S. degree with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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Minzheng Ma was born in Shandong, China, in 1997. He received the B.S. degree from the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2019, and he is currently pursuing the M.S. degree with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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J. . Ren, H. . Wang, W. . Shi, 和 M. . Ma, 《Analysis of a Serrated Ground Plane for a Low-Loss Reflectarray Antenna》, ACES Journal, 卷 36, 期 08, 页 1031–1042, 10月 2021.

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2021: Vol 36 Iss 8

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