Design and Optimization of a Single-Layer Planar Transmit-Receive Contoured Beam Reflectarray With Enhanced Performance

作者：Zhou Min^*; Borries Oscar; Jorgensen Erik

来源：IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2015, 63(4): 1247-1254.

DOI：10.1109/TAP.2014.2365039

• Contoured beam antennas
• method of moments (MoM)
• optimization
• reflectarray
• satellite antenna

This paper presents the design and optimization of a 1.2-meters single-layer planar contoured beam reflectarray in Ku-band. The reflectarray is optimized to fulfill the requirements of a Direct Broadcast Satellite mission, which covers a South American coverage in both transmit and receive frequency bands for dual linear polarization. The reflectarray is designed using a direct optimization approach where all the array elements are optimized simultaneously, thus resulting in a design with enhanced performance compared to designs obtained using a phase-only optimization approach. The reflectarray fulfills all the coverage requirements in both transmit and receive frequency bands and the performance is validated by means of full-wave Method of Moments simulations.

• 出版日期2015-4