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A novel phasing line is proposed to improve the reconfigurability frequency range of an aperture-coupled reflectarray unit cell. A couple of broadband radial stubs loaded by a single varactor diode is adopted to realize the dynamic phase shift mechanism, extending the unit cell beam-scanning and/or reshaping pattern capabilities within a broader frequency range. The radiating structure is properly optimized at 11.5 GHz, obtaining a full phase tuning range within a very large frequency span of about 1.35 GHz.
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Costanzo, S., Venneri, F., Raffo, A., Di Massa, G., Corsonello, P. (2015). Novel Varactor-Loaded Phasing Line for Reflectarray Unit Cell with Large Reconfigurability Frequency Range. In: Rocha, A., Correia, A., Costanzo, S., Reis, L. (eds) New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16528-8_1
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