A Reconfgurable Transmitarray Based on Row-column Beamsteering Method

TIAN Xiuwen; SONG Lizhong

doi:10.11999/JEIT211057

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TIAN Xiuwen, SONG Lizhong. A Reconfgurable Transmitarray Based on Row-column Beamsteering Method[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(12): 4104-4110. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211057

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TIAN Xiuwen, SONG Lizhong. A Reconfgurable Transmitarray Based on Row-column Beamsteering Method[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(12): 4104-4110. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211057

TIAN Xiuwen, SONG Lizhong. A Reconfgurable Transmitarray Based on Row-column Beamsteering Method[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(12): 4104-4110. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211057

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A Reconfgurable Transmitarray Based on Row-column Beamsteering Method

doi: 10.11999/JEIT211057

TIAN Xiuwen¹,
SONG Lizhong^{2
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1.
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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The College of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, Weihai 264209, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61971157), The Foundation of the Key Laboratory of Science and Technology for National Defense (6142401200401), The Science Foundation of Aeronautics of China (201901077005), The Research Project on Civil Aerospace Technology in Advance(D040301)

Received Date: 2021-09-29
Accepted Date: 2022-01-20
Rev Recd Date: 2022-01-15

Available Online: 2022-02-03

Publish Date: 2022-12-10

Abstract

Abstract

In this paper, to simplify the control circuit of the Reconfigurable TransmitArray(RTA), a RTA based on row-column beamsteering method is proposed, which is composed of a double-layer Frequency Selective Surfaces(FSS). By tunning a capacitance value of the varactor intergrated in the frequency selective surface element, the RTA element can tune the transmission phase. At the same time, a row-column beamsteering method is used to tune a Direction Current (DC) bias voltage between the ports of the varactor, while a line can tune the DC bias voltage at each row elements or each column elements of the RTA. Due to the limited phase range of the RTA element, a phase-correction method is also utilized to reduce the elements phase error during 2-D beamscanning. The scanned beam results show that the scanned beam angle can reach 39° with –1.7 dB gain loss in E-plane and can reach 33° with –3 dB gain loss in H-plane. The RTA has the advantages of simple 2-D beam-steering circuit and low cost, the proposed RTA has great potential for radar system and modern communication system application.
- Reconfgurable TransmitArray(RTA),
- Frequency Selective Surface (FSS),
- Row-cloumn beamsteering,
- Low cost

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