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A Broadband Cavity-Backed Slot Radiating Element in Transmission Configuration

Applied Physics 2018-10-09 v1

Abstract

A planar technology stripline-fed slot radiating element in transmission configuration is proposed. Its main advantages are the broad impedance bandwidth achieved and the property that it only radiates into half-space, which are obtained, respectively, with the use of its complementary strip element and using a cavity-backed slot. A lattice network circuit model is proposed both to explain the behavior of the structure and to establish a design methodology. Its capabilities are shown through simulation and demonstrated in a proof of concept prototype. Measurement results show a unidirectional broadside radiation pattern and a fractional bandwidth of 48%, significantly superior to other slot-based radiating elements found in the literature. The element has the ideal characteristics for building series-fed reconfigurable arrays for wide-band applications.

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@article{arxiv.1810.03111,
  title  = {A Broadband Cavity-Backed Slot Radiating Element in Transmission Configuration},
  author = {Alberto Hernández-Escobar and Elena Abdo-Sánchez and Carlos Camacho-Peñalosa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03111},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 13 figures