Modeling and Design of Electronically Tunable Reflectarrays

By Sean Victor Hum, Michal M. Okoniewski, Robert J. Davies. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2007

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Reconfigurable Reflectarrays and Array Lenses for Dynamic Antenna Beam Control: A Review (2013, methodology): “Therefore, owing to the distributed nature of the scatterer, more sophisticated circuits are needed to represent the reactance block X shown in the figure [57], or even other circuit models entirely [36][67].”
A Wideband 1 bit 12 × 12 Reconfigurable Beam-Scanning Reflectarray: Design, Fabrication, and Measurement (2019, methodology): “age is adopted to dynamically adjust phase shift [4].”
RF MEMS Actuated Reconfigurable Reflectarray Patch-Slot Element (2008, methodology): “In [6], a microstrip patch element loaded with two varactor diodes at the radiating edges of the patch was proposed.”
A Broadband High-Efficiency Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antenna Using Mechanically Rotational Elements (2017, background): “A phase range of 325° is obtained by loading two varactors at the center of a slotted patch [12], [13].”
A Reconfigurable High-Gain Partially Reflecting Surface Antenna (2008, background): “The cells are based on a design used in a reflectarray with the phase agility of each cell controlled by a pair of varactor diodes [18], [19].”
Beam Switching Reflectarray Monolithically Integrated With RF MEMS Switches (2012, methodology): “The phase of the reflected field can dynamically be adjusted using semiconductor varactor diodes that are placed in various configurations, such as to control the slot susceptance of patches [8], to control the surface impedance [9], to load a transmission line stub in aperture coupled patches [10],”
A 1600-Element Dual-Frequency Electronically Reconfigurable Reflectarray at X/Ku-Band (2017, methodology): “ning beams were shown by applying varactors [7], [12], [13] or liquid crystals [14], [15].”
A 1-Bit $10 \times 10$ Reconfigurable Reflectarray Antenna: Design, Optimization, and Experiment (2016, methodology): “Since the phase distribution is designed using (1) and then quantized, a closed-loop control [22] can be employed to reduce the beam point error.”
1 Bit Electronically Reconfigurable Folded Reflectarray Antenna Based on p-i-n Diodes for Wide-Angle Beam-Scanning Applications (2020, background): “Active devices, such as liquid crystal materials [8], [9], varactor diodes [10], RF-MEMS technology [11], and p-i-n diodes [12], are applied to change the phase of each element.”
Wideband Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna With Switchable Broadside and Conical Beams (2017, background): “Antennas with continuous beam-sweeping characteristics usually adopt tunable components, such as varactors, to continuously adjust the main beam direction [6], [7].”
Communication Through a Large Reflecting Surface With Phase Errors (2019, background): “2947445 EM waves include tunable reflect-arrays [1], [4], frequencyselective surfaces [5], or meta-surfaces consisting of a thin layer of metamaterials [6].”