Comparison of a New Anisotropic Metamaterial Cover Layer with a Conventional Dielectric-Slab for Wide-Angle Scan-Range Enhancement of Patch-Antenna Phased Arrays
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Abstract
Herein, a metamaterial cover layer is presented to enhance the scanning range of patch-antenna phased arrays in both principal planes while preserving directivity. The main novelty resides in the anisotropic characteristics of the cover layer, which inhibit the excitation of the fundamental surface-wave (SW) mode within the desired angular range. This suppression approach is infeasible with a standard dielectric-slab wide-angle impedance matching (WAIM) layer. The process for suppressing surface waves in an anisotropic slab is examined through the transverse resonance technique, resulting in design equations for practical application. The metamaterial cover uniquely integrates a wire medium (WM) slab with an artificial dielectric layer. This combination mitigates two significant limitations of wide-angle scanning phased arrays: scan blindness and mutual coupling. The proposed cover layer is utilized for two recently reported phased arrays and improvements in the scan range are demonstrated. In both cases, it is demonstrated that the porposed metamaterial cover layer outperforms a conventional dielectric-slab WAIM sheet.
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