Two-dimensional beam steering using an electrically tunable impedance surface

By Daniel F. Sievenpiper, J. Schaffner, Hyok J. Song, R. Loo, G. Tangonan. 2003

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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A Varactor-Tunable High Impedance Surface With a Resistive-Lumped-Element Biasing Grid (2007, background): “In the proposed design, adjacent patches are connected as in [ 10 ], [11], with varactor diodes thus altering the capacitance between the patches and hence the HIS resonance frequency.”
A Reconfigurable Broadband Polarization Converter Based on an Active Metasurface (2018, background): “9(c) illustrates the surface current in the xz plane, from which we see that the surface current runs along the metal vias, thus forming the inductance L1 [25].”
Analysis of a Waveguide-Fed Metasurface Antenna (2017, background): “[52] Daniel F Sievenpiper, James H Schaffner, H Jae Song, Robert Y Loo, and Gregory Tangonan, “Twodimensional beam steering using an electrically tunable impedance surface,” IEEE Transactions on antennas and propagation 51, 2713–2722 (2003).”
Metasurfaces and their applications (2018, methodology): “A tunable impedance surface reflector is depicted in Figure 3A [64], in which the reflection phase of the surface is manipulated by tuning the bias voltages on the varactor diodes.”
Simple and Accurate Analytical Model of Planar Grids and High-Impedance Surfaces Comprising Metal Strips or Patches (2007, background): “Furthermore, possible applications for artificial impedance surfaces expand the list to phase sh ifters [9], [10], TEM waveguides [11], planar reflect-arrays [12], absorbers [13]–[16], and artificial ma gnetic conductors (engineered antenna ground planes) [17].”
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],”
Modeling and Design of Electronically Tunable Reflectarrays (2007, background): “It has also been shown that tunable impedance surfaces can also be adapted for use as reconfigurable reflectors [21].”
Electronically Steerable 1-D Fabry-Perot Leaky-Wave Antenna Employing a Tunable High Impedance Surface (2012, methodology): “Similar types of tunable HIS have been used to design reconfigurable reflectors [27], [28], reconfigurable reflectarrays [29], or tunable Frequency Selective Surfaces [30].”
A planar resonator antenna based on a woodpile EBG material (2005, background): “The operating mechanism of these devices can be broadly grouped into the following five classes: 1) EBG substrates and high impedance ground planes that reduce surface waves and increase radiation efficiency [3]–[13], or lower the profile of the design [14], [15]; 2) reflector antennas made from all”
A Metasurfaces Review: Definitions and Applications (2019, methodology): “These diodes have been used for beam steering and switching the states(modes) of metasurfaces [78,79].”
Roadmap on metasurfaces (2019, unknown): “Electrically tunable meta-atoms (ETMs) have been realized at frequencies ranging from microwave to optics, thanks to versatile electrically sensitive materials available at different frequency domains, such as varactor/PIN diodes, liquid crystals (LCs), doped semiconductors and two-dimensional (2D) ”