Low-profile substrate-integrated lens antenna using metamaterials

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 12, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-46

  Dhouibi, Abdallah ^a   Burokur, Shah Nawaz ^b,c   De Lustrac, André ^b,c   Priou, Alain ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS NANTERRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Gradient index materials; Lens antenna; Parallelplate waveguide; Substrate integrated

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; FAR FIELD RADIATION PATTERNS; FOCUSING CONDITIONS; GRADIENT INDEXES; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES; PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE; SUBSTRATE-INTEGRATED;

ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LENS ANTENNAS; METAMATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84888408857     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2237372     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. D. Schurig, J. J. Mock, B. J. Justice, S. A. Cummer, J. B. Pendry, A. F. Starr, and D. R. Smith, "Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies," Science, Vol. 314, no. 5801, pp. 977-980, Oct. 2006. (Pubitemid 44749939)
2. P.-H. Tichit, S. N. Burokur, D. Germain, and A. de Lustrac, "Design and experimental demonstration of a high-directive emission with transformation optics," Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 83, no. 15, p. 155108, Apr. 2011.
3. P.-H. Tichit, S. N. Burokur, and A. de Lustrac, "Transformation media producing quasi-perfect isotropic emission," Opt. Express, Vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 20551-20556, Oct. 2011.
4. N. Kundtz and D. R. Smith, "Extreme-angle broadband metamaterial lens," Nature Mater., Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 129-132, Feb. 2010.
5. Y. G. Ma, C. K. Ong, T. Tyc, and U. Leonhardt, "An omnidirectional retroreflector based on the transmutation of dielectric singularities," Nature Mater., Vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 639-642, Aug. 2009.
6. P.-H. Tichit, S. N. Burokur, and A. de Lustrac, "Waveguide taper engineering using coordinate transformation technology," Opt. Express, Vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 767-772, Jan. 2010.
7. D. R. Smith, J. J. Mock, A. F. Starr, and D. Schurig, "Gradient index metamaterials," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 71, no. 3, p. 036609, Mar. 2005.
8. T. Driscoll, D. N. Basov, A. F. Starr, P. M. Rye, S. Nemat-Nasser, D. Schurig, and D. R. Smith, "Free-space microwave focusing by a negative-index gradient lens," Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 88, no. 8, p. 081101, Feb. 2006.
9. R. K. Luneburg, Mathematical Theory of Optics. Providence, RI: Brown Univ. Press, 1944.
10. C. H. Walter, "Surface-wave luneberg lens antennas," IRE Trans. Antennas Propag., Vol. AP-8, no. 5, pp. 508-515, Sep. 1960.
11. J. C. Maxwell, ""Solutions of problems," problem no. 2," Cambridge Dublin Math. J., Vol. 8, pp. 188-195, 1854.
12. B. Fuchs, O. Lafond, S. Rondineau, and M. Himdi, "Design and characterization of half Maxwell fish-eye lens antennas in millimeter waves," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., Vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 2292-2300, Jun. 2006.
13. C. Pfeiffer and A. Grbic, "A printed, broadband luneburg lens antenna," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., Vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 3055-3059, Sep. 2010.
14. S. Maci, G. Minatti, M. Casaletti, and M. Bosiljevac, "Metasurfing: Addressing waves on impenetrable metasurfaces," IEEE Antennas Wireless Propag. Lett., Vol. 10, pp. 1499-1502, 2011.
15. H. Gao, B. Zhang, S. G. Johnson, and G. Barbastathis, "Design of thin-film photonic metamaterial lüneburg lens using analytical approach," Opt. Express, Vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1617-1628, Jan. 2012.
16. W. Rotman and R. F. Turner, "Wide-angle microwave lens for line source applications," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., Vol. AP-11, no. 6, pp. 623-632, Nov. 1963.
17. G. D. M. Peeler and D. H. Archer, "A two-dimensional microwave luneberg lens," IRE Trans. Antennas Propag., Vol. AP-1, no. 1, pp. 12-23, Jul. 1953.
18. D. R. Smith, S. Schultz, P. Markos, and C. M. Soukoulis, "Determination of effective permittivity and permeability of metamaterials from reflection and transmission coefficients," Phys. Rev. B., Vol. 65, no. 19, p. 195104, May 2002.
19. K. S. Yngvesson, D. H. Schaubert, T. L. Korzeniowski, E. L. Kollberg, T. Thungren, and J. F. Johansson, "Endfire tapered slot antennas on dielectric substrates," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., Vol. AP-33, no. 12, pp. 1392-1400, Dec. 1985. (Pubitemid 16539568)