Application of the high-gain substrate-superstrate configuration to dielectric leaky-wave antennas |
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Authors: | Gomez-Tornero JL Quesada-Pereira F Alvarez-Melcon A |
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Affiliation: | Dept. de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones, Tech. Univ. of Cartagena, Spain; |
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Abstract: | The high-gain substrate-superstrate configuration, which was proposed to increase the gain in printed circuit antennas, is applied to dielectric leaky-wave antennas (LWAs) to improve its frequency response. Analysis of a slitted suspended dielectric rectangular waveguide is carried out using a full-wave method. It is proved that the minimum values of the leakage constant of the leaky-wave mode for the suspended configuration are related to the high-gain resonance conditions. Moreover, it is found that the suspended LWA exhibits very small beamwidth variations in a large frequency bandwidth. It is well-known that inhomogeneous filled LWAs suffer from variation of beamwidth as the angle of maximum radiation is scanned with frequency. The proposed topology can be adjusted so that a flat response of the beamwidth can be obtained in a large frequency band, while maintaining the frequency-scanning behavior of the LWA. |
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