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Type: 
Conference
Description: 
Fabry-Perot cavity antennas (FPCAs) are constituted by a grounded dielectric slab with a partially reflecting surface (PRS) on top, commonly implemented by an isotropic metallic thin sheet acting as a metasurface. These devices can be designed to radiate directive beams at broadside through a low-profile and compact structure at the expense of a typically narrowband behavior. The latter issue has recently been mitigated by placing a dielectric superstrate over the metasurface, generating a so-called thick PRS (see Fig. 1). This additional layer can suitably be designed to obtain a positive slope on the phase of the reflection coefficient, i.e., the thick PRS can show a non-Foster behavior. It is therefore possible to design the PRS in order to fulfill the cavity resonance condition to have a broadside beam over a relatively large frequency range.
Publisher: 
IEEE
Publication date: 
14 Jul 2024
Authors: 

Edoardo Negri, Elena Ballarini, Walter Fuscaldo, Paolo Burghignoli, Alessandro Galli

Biblio References: 
Pages: 390-390
Origin: 
2024 IEEE INC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium)