Broadband Surface-Wave Antenna With a Novel Nonuniform Tapered Metasurface

• Published in: IEEE antennas and wireless propagation letters Vol. 16; pp. 2902 - 2905
• Main Authors: Feng, Guirong, Chen, Lei, Xue, Xingsi, Shi, Xiaowei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2017; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Antennas; Artificial magnetic conductor; Bandwidth; Bandwidths; Broadband; broadband antenna; Broadband antennas; Construction planning; metasurface (MS); Metasurfaces; Surface impedance; Surface waves; surface-wave antenna (SWA)

A broadband surface-wave antenna with a monopole-like radiation pattern is presented. The antenna provides a wide bandwidth by two techniques, including the utilization of a novel nonuniform tapered metasurface that has smaller inner rectangular patches for exciting two resonant modes of TM 01 and T...