Phase-gradient meta-dome for increasing grating-lobe-free scan range in phased arrays

A Benini, E Martini, S Monni, MC Vigano… - … on Antennas and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a simple and effective way to increase the scan range of phased array
antennas by using a metasurface (MTS) curved dome. The technique is based on a phase …

Realization of an ultra-thin metasurface to facilitate wide bandwidth, wide angle beam scanning

AO Bah, PY Qin, RW Ziolkowski, Q Cheng, YJ Guo - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
A wide bandwidth, ultra-thin, metasurface is reported that facilitates wide angle beam
scanning. Each unit cell of the metasurface contains a multi-resonant, strongly-coupled …

Efficiency improvement and cross-polarization reduction of single-fed frequency-scan leaky wave microstrip antennas by using an M-shape metasurface as the WAIM …

M Fartookzadeh, SHM Armaki - AEU-International Journal of Electronics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing the efficiency and reducing the cross polarization of a single-fed leaky wave
antenna by using a wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM) layer are studied in this paper …

Metamaterial technologies and applications: a mobile communications industrial perspective

R Lombardi, C Mazzucco, R Flamini… - Metamaterials-by …, 2024 - Elsevier
Metamaterials and metasurfaces offer unique capabilities to manipulate fields and waves in
ways not achievable with natural media. With the recent introduction of the smart …

Design and analysis of a metasurface-based wideband wide-angle scanning phased array

H Qi, H Liu - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a wideband wide-angle scanning phased array, which employs Φ-
shaped unit cells to form a metasurface (MS) for achieving wideband impedance matching …

Experimental demonstration of metamaterials application for mitigating scan blindness in phased array antennas

P Rodríguez-Ulibarri, T Crépin, C Martel… - EPJ Applied …, 2016 - epjam.edp-open.org
This paper presents two metamaterial-inspired solutions to mitigate the scan blindness
effects in a phased array antenna. In the first solution, portions of a bed of nails are …

Diamagneto-dielectric anisotropic wide angle impedance matching layers for active phased arrays

F Silvestri, L Cifola, G Gerini - Progress in electromagnetics …, 2016 - research.tue.nl
In this paper we present the full process of designing anisotropic metamaterial (MM) wide
angle impedance matching (WAIM) layers. These layers are used to reduce the scan losses …

Impedance matching for an aperture antenna

A Medhipour, M Sazegar, A Guenterberg… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
A method and apparatus for impedance matching for an antenna aperture are described. In
one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna aperture having at least one array of …

[PDF][PDF] Metamaterials and extraordinary transmission structures applied to microwave, millimeter and terahertz waves devices

PR Ulibarri - 2017 - academica-e.unavarra.es
Nowadays electromagnetic (EM) waves are ubiquitous in everyday life. During the last 150
years, the human being has been capable of developing a complete theory; generating and …

Design and analysis of a wide angle impedance matching metasurface for wideband antenna arrays

A wide bandwidth, low profile, double sided, wide angle impedance matching metasurface
is reported. It alleviates the well-known problem of impedance mismatch caused by mutual …