A Review of Reconfigurable Leaky-Wave Antennas

Nima Javanbakht; Barry Syrett; Rony E. Amaya; Jafar Shaker

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3093775

IEEE Access (Jan 2021)

A Review of Reconfigurable Leaky-Wave Antennas

Nima Javanbakht,
Barry Syrett,
Rony E. Amaya,
Jafar Shaker

Affiliations

Nima Javanbakht: ORCiD; Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Barry Syrett: ORCiD; Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Rony E. Amaya: Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Jafar Shaker: ORCiD; Communication Research Center, Ottawa, ON, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3093775
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9
pp. 94224 – 94238

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A comprehensive survey of the reconfigurable leaky-wave antennas (LWAs) is made in this paper. Beam-steering and unique radiating features of LWA are highlighted particularly. Therefore, the radiation mechanism of different types of LWA, including uniform, quasi-uniform, periodic, and metamaterial LWAs are discussed in detail. The guiding structures for realizing LWAs, namely microstrip, waveguide, substrate integrated waveguide (SIW), and half-mode SIW (HMSIW) are investigated as well. Basic concepts of electronic beam-scanning LWAs are also introduced, and several state-of-the-art reconfigurable LWAs are studied thoroughly. The investigated reconfigurable LWAs are suitable for beam-scanning applications due to their compactness, ease of implementation, reasonably high gain, and relatively wide beam-scanning range, as will be demonstrated through this comprehensive review.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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