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Liquid-crystal reconfigurable metasurface reflectors

Senglee Foo
- pp 2069-2070
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In this paper, an electronically beam-steerable flat reflector antennas using liquid-crystal-loaded metasurface was proposed, which can be reconfigured in real time to achieve effective beam collimation and beam steering by varying DC voltage distribution of the TTD cells.
Abstract
This paper presents concept of an electronically beam-steerable flat reflector antennas using liquid-crystal-loaded metasurface. Primary reflector of the proposed antenna concept utilizes metasurface comprising of a large number of reconfigurable true-time-delay (TTD) unit cells. Consequently, reflective phase of the metasurface reflector can be electronically reconfigured in real time to achieve effective beam collimation and beam steering by varying DC voltage distribution of the TTD cells.

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An Overview of the Theory and Applications of Metasurfaces: The Two-Dimensional Equivalents of Metamaterials

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