High Scanning Rate Asymmetrical Dual-Beam Leaky Wave Antenna Using Sinusoidally Modulated Reactance Superposing Surface

  • Zhen Peng
  • , Wanghui Yang
  • , Shuhai Shi
  • , Mei Jiang
  • , Jianjun Gao
  • , Guohua Zhai*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A seamless scanning dual-beam leaky-wave antenna (LWA) suited for multiobject detecting and tracking without blindness exhibits potential applications in wireless communication and radar systems. The beam scanning rate is a key indicator to measure the scanning performance of LWA. However, the high scanning rate dual-beam LWA with continuous scanning is seldom considered in the published literature. Defined first as the sum of the scanning rate of each beam in this communication, a novel asymmetrical dual-beam LWA with a high scanning rate of 12.9 is then proposed based on the combination of a half-mode substrate-integrated waveguide (HMSIW)-surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) structure and a sinusoidally modulated reactance superposing surface (SMRSS) technique. The hi gh scanning rate is attributed to the dispersion enhancement of the slotted HMSIW-SPP unit, while periodic modulation superposed and uniform slots etched on the top and bottom layers, respectively, contribute to the asymmetrical dual-beam continuous scanning. As an example, an X-band asymmetrical dual-beam LWA is implemented and measured. Over the band of 8.65-9.5 GHz [9.3% fractional bandwidth (BW)], the proposed dual-beam LWA achieves a seamless beam scanning from -65° to -2° and from -6° to +51°, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12258-12263
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume70
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Dual beam
  • half-mode substrate-integrated waveguide (HMSIW)
  • high scanning rate
  • leaky wave antenna (LWA)
  • sinusoidally modulated reactance superposing surface (SMRSS)

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