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Gain Improvement of a Microstrip Composite Right/Left-Handed Leaky Wave Antenna Using Symmetrical Unit Cells with Short Stubs
Shin-ichiro MATSUZAWA Kazuo SATO Atushi SANADA Hiroshi KUBO
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E90-B
No.6
pp.1559-1561 Publication Date: 2007/06/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.6.1559 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Antennas and Propagation Keyword: metamaterials, composite right/left-handed transmission lines, leaky wave antennas, beam scan,
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Summary:
In order to improve the antenna gain, a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) leaky-wave (LW) antenna composed of symmetrical unit cells with short stubs terminated by vertical vias is designed. The use of symmetrical unit cells suppresses the cross-polarization of radiation to less than 23 dB. By comparing the measured radiation characteristics to that of a conventional CRLH LW antenna without short stub in the X-band, it is shown that the presented CRLH LW antenna with 51 unit cells offers a narrower beam and the antenna gain improves 4.1, 2.2 and 3.1 dB in the backward, broadside and forward directions of radiation, respectively.
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