Research Article

Passive and Active Reconfigurable Scan-Beam Hollow Patch Reflectarray Antennas

Table 1

Parameters of the passive hollow patch loaded with SMD capacitor.

Parameter Value

Operating frequency ๐‘“ = 7.0โ€‰GHz
Substrate thickness โ„Ž = 1.575โ€‰mm
Substrate permittivity ๐œ– ๐‘Ÿ = 2.33
Loss tangent tanโ€‰ ๐›ฟ = 0.0005
Patch width, length ๐‘Š = 15โ€‰mm, ๐ฟ = 12โ€‰mm
Slot width, length ๐‘Š โ„Ž = 13โ€‰mm, ๐ฟ โ„Ž = 0.55โ€‰mm
Substrate width, length ๐œ† 0 / 2 , ๐œ† 0 / 2 mm
SMD 0805 thickness ๐ป s m d = 0.8โ€‰mm
SMD 0805 width ๐ฟ s m d = 2.0โ€‰mm
SMD 0805 metal connection length ๐ฟ 2 s m d = 0.35โ€‰mm
Resonance capacitance ๐ถ 0 = 0.5 5 โˆผ 0 .6โ€‰pF