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

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Conference Proceeding
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Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, APCAP 2015, 2016, pp. 276 - 277
Issue Date:
2016-01-06
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© 2015 IEEE. 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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