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Revisiting Risley Prism Transmit-array antennas using a novel co-design phase correction approach

Matos, S.A. ; Fonseca, N. ; Serra, João C. Serra ; Felício, J. M. ; Costa, J.R. ; Fernandes, C. A.

Revisiting Risley Prism Transmit-array antennas using a novel co-design phase correction approach, Proc IEEE IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting IEEE APS, Florence, Italy, Vol. , pp. - , July, 2024.

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Abstract
Mechanical beam steering using two independent axial rotating metasurfaces (Risley Prism configuration) have been shown to be a cost-effective solution for millimeter wave (mmW) antennas. By adapting to mmW this canonical beam steering concept of optics using metasurfaces (instead of wedge prisms) allows achieving a greater design flexibility. Many works have explored different ways of encoding the required phase correction. All of them implicitly implement three operations: i) beam collimation (i.e., plane wave conversion); ii) 1D beam tilting along a given axis; iii) a second 1D beam tilting for a different direction according to the prescribed beam pointing direction. Conventionally, steps i) and ii) are solved by the first operating metasurface, which sets the phase delay profile of the second metasurface. Recently, the authors have shown an alternative approach where the beam collimation is performed by the combined effect of the two metasurfaces. Using 3D-printed perforated slabs we have previously demonstrated that this generalized approach is effective for the reduction of the side lobe level of the conventional case. In this communication, we will present alternative implementations of this concept to demonstrate the wider reach of our findings.