A microstrip leaky-wave antenna loaded with digitally controlled interdigital capacitors for fixed-frequency beam scanning

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2016

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Karmokar, D.K.
Esselle, K.P.
Heimlich, M.

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Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, APCAP 2015, 2016, pp.276-277

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2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (APCAP) (30 Jun 2015 - 3 Jul 2015 : Kuta, Indonesia)

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A digitally controlled half-width microstrip leaky-wave antenna (LWA) is presented for fixed-frequency beam scanning. The free edge of a half-width microstrip line is loaded with a number of periodic interdigital capacitors. Each capacitor is connected to the ground plane by a digital switch. By dynamically changing the reactance profile at the free edge of the microstrip the beam direction is changed at a fixed frequency. Full-wave numerical simulations show that the antenna has the ability to scan the main beam from 35° to 56 ° at 5.75 GHz.

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