Low profile wide band high gain transmitarray antenna for Ku band applications

Abstract

A wideband transmissive surface with identical slots on 15 × 15 unit cells proposes in this article. The high gain transmitarray antenna presents using Huygens' principle at 15 GHz. The transmitarray surface consists of trilayer H-shaped slots on the middle of four symmetric slots on the edges of the unit cells. The placed slots induce Huygens’ resonances at three frequencies, 13.5 GHz, 15 GHz and 16.7 GHz which is caused by electric and magnetic surface currents on the transmitarray surface. This makes a wide bandwidth for the antenna performance. 360° phase distribution is obtained by increasing the H-shaped slots legs. Since no dielectric substrate used between layers, the transmission coefficient is near 1 (0 dB) through the whole range. For experimental results, the trilayer artificial metallic surfaces with substrateless conductive slotted unit cells is fabricated. The test results presented the transmitarray antenna peak gain is measured 28.6 dB at operating frequency, 15 GHz. Ultra wide band antenna with 3 dB gain bandwidth of 30% and high aperture efficiency of 42.66%.