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Low-Profile Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons Traveling-Wave Antenna for Endfire Radiation

Applied Physics 2018-03-14 v1

Abstract

This paper proposes a low-profile and highly efficient endfire radiating travelling-wave antenna based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) transmission line. The aperture is approximately 0.32λ0×0.01λ00.32\lambda_0\times0.01\lambda_0 where λ0\lambda_0 is the space wavelength at the operational frequency 8 GHz. This antenna provides an endfire radiation beam within 7.5-8.5 GHz. The maximum gain and total efficiency reaches 9.2 dBi and 96%96\%, respectively. In addition to the endfire operation, it also provides a beam scanning functionality within 9-12 GHz. Measurement results are finally given to validate the proposed SSPPs antenna.

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@article{arxiv.1706.08044,
  title  = {Low-Profile Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons Traveling-Wave Antenna for Endfire Radiation},
  author = {Abhishek Kandwal and Qingfeng Zhang and Xiao-Lan Tang and Louis WY. Liu and Ge Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.08044},
  year   = {2018}
}