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publication name Varying Slot Lengths Strip Loading Squared Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray
Authors A. M. Abd-Elhady , S.H. Zainud-Deen , A. A. Mitkees , A. A. Kishk
year 2012
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Abstract

a new type of dielectric resonator reflectarray composed of 529 elements covering an area of 276 x 276 cm 2 is constructed. The unit cell consists of squared DRA supported on a strip with variable slot length, a dielectric layer and a conducting ground plane. The full phase of 360 degree of the array elements can be obtained by superposition two slot-strip sizes. Two types of feeding were analyzed, the first is center fed reflectarray while the second is offset feed to reduce the feeder blockage and as a result the antenna efficiency is improved. The antenna has 10% bandwidth for 1 dB gain variation is obviously wider than that of conventional reflectarray antenna while the offset fed reflectarray provide better far field pattern with back lobes reduction by -5 dB and side lobe by -2 dB. A rectangular X- band pyramidal horn was used in both reflectarrays which have 23 x 23 elements of with cells separation of 12 mm that less than 15 mm (lambda/2) for avoiding grating lobes. CST microwave studio © (finite integral technique) package is applied and compared with microstripes © package (transmission line technique) with good agreements between them. The mutual coupling between the feeding horn and the elements of the reflectarray are considered. At 10 GHz, the antenna provides a 3-dB beamwidth of 6 degree with a gain of 28 dB. The antenna bandwidth within 1dB gain variation is found to be 13% and aperture efficiency of 59%.

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