Abdelhady Mahmoud Abdelhady
Professor
A broadband and high aperture efficiency multilayer transmitarray based on aperture-coupled slot unit cells
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation • 2023
Publication Information
Authors
GL Huang, ZY Pang, MKT Al-Nuaimi, AA Kishk, A Mahmoud
Keywords
aperture efficiency, transmitarray
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Publisher
IEEE
Volume
71
Issue
12
Pages
9633 - 9642
publication.type
International
Paper Link
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Supplementary Materials
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Abstract
A broadband high-gain multilayer transmitarray operating in X-band is proposed in this work. Unlike most transmitarrays achieving phase compensation by changing their element sizes, the length of striplines of the proposed transmitarray is adjusted to control a wider range of phase responses of identical array elements. By reducing the mutual coupling between adjacent units using surrounded metallic vias, the performance of the proposed transmitarray cell units can be improved significantly. In addition, aperture-coupled bowtie slots with stacked patches are adopted for wideband matching and high gain. By exploiting the true stripline phase compensation and aperture coupled technique with mutual coupling improvement, the proposed transmitarray with flat gain response is implemented. The designed transmitarray accomplishes an enhanced matching bandwidth covering 8.0–12.0 GHz while adopting the decoupling technique between adjacent unit cells. A square transmitarray of 10×10 cells forming an aperture area of 25λ2o at 10 GHz is fabricated and measured. The measured realized gain is 22.05 dBi, achieving 50% aperture efficiency at 10 GHz. The 1- and 3-dB gain bandwidths are 17.6% (9.35–11.15 GHz) and 19.5% (9.25–11.25 GHz), respectively. The flat gain characteristic with high aperture efficiency candidates the proposed design for radar and satellite applications.
