A Reconfigurable Polarization Converter Using Active Metasurface and Its Application in Horn Antenna

作者：Li, Wei; Xia, Song^*; He, Bin; Chen, Jianzhong; Shi, Hongyu; Zhang, Anxue; Li, Zhenrong; Xu, Zhuo

来源：IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2016, 64(12): 5281-5290.

DOI：10.1109/TAP.2016.2620484

• Active metasurface (AMS)
• p-i-n diode
• polarization reconfigurable (PR)
• transmission polarization converter
• tuning

This paper proposes a reconfigurable polarization converter based on a p-i-n diode controlled active metasurface (AMS). The AMS consists of a thin dielectric substrate and is tuned by two identical layers of elliptic split rings loaded with p-i-n diodes. The p-i-n diodes are positioned between the split gaps and biased through the interconnected elliptic split rings without extra bias network. The active design achieves conversion from linear to circular polarization when the p-i-n diodes are OFF, whereas no conversion takes place when the diodes are ON. A prototype of the proposed design is fabricated, and the operational characteristics are measured. Both the simulated and the experimental results verify the viability of the design. Subsequently, the converter is applied to a linearly polarized horn antenna as a superstrate, making the polarization of the antenna reconfigurable.

• 出版日期2016-12
• 单位西安交通大学; 中国电子科技集团公司第二十九研究所