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Design and Fabrication of Engineered Reflector for Wideband Linear-to-Circular Polarization Converter,

2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting • 2020
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Authors Mourad S. Ibrahim ; Abdelhady Mahmoud ; Amr Awamry ; Zhi Hao Jiang ; Wei Hong ; Mustafa Al-Nuaimi
Keywords Surface waves , Wideband , Polarization , Microwave circuits , Broadband antennas , Microwave measurement
Journal 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting
Publisher IEEE
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publication.type International
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Abstract
In this paper, the design of reflective engineered surface for wideband linear-to-circular polarization (LP-to-CP) conversion is presented. The proposed LP-to-CP polarizer is composed of symmetric anisotropic unit cell have 90° reflection phase difference between its orthogonal reflection components. A LP-to-CP engineered reflector is composed by 14 × 14 unit cells. When illuminated by an x- or y-polarized incident wave, the proposed engineered reflector converts the incident LP wave to a CP reflected wave. The axial ratio (AR) is less than 3dB from 6.9 GHz to 14.1 GHz and LP-to-CP conversion bandwidth is about 66.6%. The proposed LP-to-CP engineered surface design has been fabricated and it's being measured now to validate its polarization conversion characteristics at microwave band. The measured results will be presented at the conference.