Modeling and analysis of quasi-periodic arrays

Maokun Li, Xunwang Dang, Tong Liu, Fan Yang, Shenheng Xu, Amir Boag

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Abstract

Planar quasi-periodic arrays are widely used in many electromagnetic devices such as metasurfaces, reflectarray antennas, nano particle arrays, etc. They comprise similar elements located on periodic grids. In this work, we compare the reflection phase of elements in the array between the designed value and the practical one. This difference is mainly because real quasi-periodic arrays break the periodicity assumption used in computing the designed element phase. To study this error, we develop a formulation based on Floquet theory to compute the reflection phase of a unit-cell in a practical array. We observe that the error can be significant for elements with high-Q resonances and can deteriorate the performance of reflectarray antennas or metasurfaces. As a remedy, we develop a workflow for element phase correction based on full-wave simulation of the entire array. An improvement in performance is observed for arrays with high-Q resonances.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2017 19th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages998-1000
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781509044511
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Oct 2017
Event19th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2017 - Verona, Italy
Duration: 11 Sep 201715 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2017 19th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2017

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVerona
Period11/09/1715/09/17

Keywords

  • integral equation
  • quasi-periodic arrays
  • reduced basis method
  • reflectarray antena

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Radiation

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