An Overview of Design Techniques for Two-Dimensional Leaky-Wave Antennas
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Abstract
Two-dimensional leaky-wave antennas offer effective, compact, single-feeder, easy-to-fabricate solutions to the longstanding problem of realizing a simultaneously directive and low-profile radiating device. These traveling-wave antennas have been thus proposed as wideband, reconfigurable, or frequency-scanning radiating structures in different application contexts, spacing from the microwave to terahertz frequency range. These diverse contexts call for a comprehensive guide to characterizing and designing two-dimensional leaky-wave antennas. In this work, a review of numerical techniques for the analysis of either quasi-uniform or radially periodic leaky-wave antennas is proposed in order to provide the reader with straightforward yet effective design guidelines. Theoretical results are corroborated through full-wave simulations of realistic three-dimensional models of the considered devices, thus demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
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OpenAlex topics: Microwave Engineering and Waveguides · Antenna Design and Analysis · Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
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Affiliations
Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy
Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 00133 Rome, Italy
Funding
European Union—Next Generation EU under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.3, CUP B53C22004050001, partnership on “Telecommunications of the Future” (PE00000001—program “RESTART”)
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