Design and Measurement of a 220 GHz Wideband 3-D Printed Dielectric Reflectarray

作者:Wu, Meng Da; Li, Bin*; Zhou, Ying; Guo, Da Lu; Liu, Yong; Wei, Feng; Lv, Xin
来源:IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 2018, 17(11): 2094-2098.
DOI:10.1109/LAWP.2018.2869033

摘要

A wideband high-gain terahertz dielectric reflectarray working at 220 GHz is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The reflectarray unit cell consists of a ground plane and a dielectric block. The reflection phase is obtained by adjusting the height of the block. Using the reflection phase computational algorithm, a dielectric reflectarray composed of 40 x 40 unit cells is designed and fabricated through three-dimensional (3-D) printed technology. Four types of 3-D printed material are measured using the THz time-domain spectroscopy system. It is found that the maximum gain and gain bandwidth of the proposed reflectarray is 31.3 dBi and 20.9%, respectively. Measured results are in reasonable agreement with simulated results. This result is an important step toward the 3-D printed THz dielectric reflectarray above 220 GHz.