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EP1120856A1
EP1120856A1 EP00935227A EP00935227A EP1120856A1 EP 1120856 A1 EP1120856 A1 EP 1120856A1 EP 00935227 A EP00935227 A EP 00935227A EP 00935227 A EP00935227 A EP 00935227A EP 1120856 A1 EP1120856 A1 EP 1120856A1
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  • This invention is framed in the telecommunication, radar and space technology sectors.
  • This invention is related to planar reflector antennas, as an alternative to parabolic or shaped reflectors that are used in radar systems, in terrestrial and satellite communications, in both earth and flight segments.
  • a reflectarray consists of an array of radiating elements (120) on a plane with a certain adjustment that allows a collimated reflected electromagnetic field to be obtained when it is illuminated by a feed (110) (figure 1) in a similar way to that of a parabolic antenna. This is equivalent to obtaining a reflected field with a planar wave front, i.e. with a progressive phase distribution on the planar surface.
  • the reflectarray concept is old, as it can be seen in a number of references, [D. G. Berry, R. G. Malech W. A. Kennedy, 'The Reflectarray Antenna ', IEEE Trans.
  • Microstrip antenna arrays are well-known [R. J. Mailloux, J. F. McIlvenna, N. P. Kernweis, 'Microstrip Array Technology ', IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagat., Vol. 29, No. 1 Jan. 1981, pp. 25-37], and they are used as high-gain antennas as an alternative to reflectors.
  • Microstrip arrays consist of a group of printed metallic patches that are fed individually by means of a complicated feeding network to get the progressive phase distribution on the array surface. These arrays have advantages over reflectors as their low profile, low volume and weight, low cross polarisation and ease of manufacture by conventional photo-etching techniques. However, the frequency band is narrow and the antenna efficiency is reduced at microwave frequencies, due to the losses in the complex feeding network.
  • the reflectarray since the feeding is the same as that of reflectors, the inconveniences of microstrip arrays as a result of the feeding network are eliminated, i.e. the design and manufacture processes are simplified, losses are reduced and the antenna efficiency is improved.
  • the reflectarrays have the advantage of their low profile, smaller distortion and lower levels of cross polarisation, at the cost of a very narrow band, as described in [J. Huang, 'Bandwidth study of Microstrip Reflectarray and a Novel Phased Reflectarray Concept', 1995 IEEE Intl. Symposium on Antennas and Propagat., pp. 582-585].
  • each patch receives the signal from the feed, which is propagated along the transmission line until the end, which can be either a short or open circuit, where it is reflected, propagated back and radiated by the microstrip patch with a phase shift proportional to twice the line length.
  • the printed line segments generate dissipative losses and spurious radiation that cause a reduction in the antenna efficiency and an increase in the cross polarisation levels.
  • phase adjustment in each element of the reflectarray such as the size variation of the resonant patches [D. M. Pozar, T. Metzler, 'Analysis of to Reflectarray Antenna Using Microstrip Patches Variable of Size ', Electronic Letters, 15th April 1993 Vol. 29 No. 8, pp. 657-658], the use of phase shifters [J. R. Profera, E. Charles, 'Active Reflectarray Antenna for Communication Satellite Frequency Re-use', patent US5280297, January 1994], or by the voltage control in diodes connected to the radiating elements [F.
  • phase adjustment by means of the variation of the resonant patch length is very easy to carry out by using dielectric sheets with printed metallic patches. Also the inconveniences due to the printed lines, that appear in reflectarrays with line segments, are eliminated in this implementation.
  • the operating principle of the reflectarrays of variable-sized printed elements is based on the fact that the phase of the reflected wave varies with the resonant length of the elements.
  • a microstrip patch is a resonant antenna, so that its length should be approximately half a wavelength in the dielectric. If the patch length is modified in an array of identical rectangular patches on a ground plane, as shown in figure 2, the module of the reflection coefficient remains equal to one, owing to the ground plane, but the phase of the reflected wave changes.
  • the total range of phase variation that can be achieved by varying the length of the patches depends on the separation between patches and ground plane, i.e. the thickness of the substrate (210).
  • the reflectarrays based on this adjustment technique use thin dielectric substrates.
  • the phase variation versus the length is strongly non-linear, exhibiting very rapid variations near the resonance, and very slow in the extreme values, as can be seen in figure 6.
  • the rapid phase variation makes the phase distribution very sensitive to manufacturing tolerance errors. Because of the non-linear behaviour, the phase is very sensitive to variations in frequency, significantly reducing the working band of the reflectarray.
  • reflectarrays are their use as dual polarisation reflectors for frequency reuse.
  • independent signals are transmitted and received through the different channels, with an overlap in their frequency bands.
  • the adjacent channels are transmitted or received in orthogonal polarisations, to allow frequency reuse.
  • the two orthogonal polarisations can be circular, clockwise and anti clockwise, the most common case is to use two linear polarisations, designated as vertical and horizontal.
  • the frequency reuse requires a very high isolation between polarisations, which cannot be achieved with parabolic or shaped reflectors.
  • two superposed grid reflectors with a separate feed for each polarisation can be used.
  • Each grid reflector is made up of parallel metallic strips on a parabolic or conformal surface, so that it is transparent to one of the polarisations and acts as a reflector for the orthogonal one.
  • a reflectarray acting as a dual polarisation reflector for frequency reuse has been patented [J. R. Profera, E. Charles, 'Reflectarray Antenna for Communication Satellite Frequency Re-use Applications ', patent US5543809, August 1996], which is made up of two arrays of orthogonal dipoles of variable lengths.
  • the array of vertical dipoles acts as a reflector for the vertical polarisation and that of horizontal dipoles for the other polarisation.
  • the invention includes reflectarrays in both, printed and non-printed technology, and also the possibility of including segments of transmission lines to obtain phase adjustment in the 360° range. But, like all reflectarrays based on radiating elements of variable sizes, this reflectarray has the inconvenience of a very small bandwidth, and is not suitable for most commercial applications.
  • the planar reflectors based on printed circuit technology that exist until now have several disadvantages.
  • the reflectarrays that use segments of microstrip line for phase adjustment have a lower efficiency and a higher level of cross polarisation owing to the losses and the spurious radiation of the lines respectively.
  • the reflectarrays with variable sized radiating elements do not present these problems, but on the other hand they are very sensitive to errors in manufacturing tolerance, and their operation is limited to a very narrow band, because of the rapid variation of the phase with the length.
  • phase of the reflection coefficient are required in the range from 0 to 360°, and they cannot be achieved for a thicker substrate.
  • a reflectarray configuration that consists of two or more array layers with patches of variable sizes (Figs. 4, 5 and 8) is proposed.
  • This configuration produces a more linear behaviour of the phase versus size, and permits realisations less sensitive to manufacturing tolerances and with a larger bandwidth.
  • the innovation of stacking two or more array layers allows the phase shift in the reflected field to be increased to values greater than the 360° required for the reflectarray design.
  • An array of rectangular metallic patches behaves as a resonant circuit, in which the phase of the reflected field varies with the size of the patches in a range of up to 180°.
  • the maximum range of phase shift approaches 360°, if the separation between the patches and the plane is very small (much smaller than ⁇ , ⁇ being the wavelength).
  • Figure 6 shows the phase as a function of the side for an array of square patches at frequencies 11.5, 12 and 12.5 GHz.
  • the phase range is 305°, for a separator substrate (210) with dielectric constant 1.05 and 1 mm. thick (0,04 ⁇ ).
  • the phase shift range decreases as the separation increases between patches and metallic plane, i.e. the thickness of the substrate (210).
  • each of them behaves like a resonant circuit, and the phase of the reflected field varies with the patch size in a similar way to that of one layer, but the phase shift can reach values of several times 360°. Therefore, with several array layers, the separation between them, and the separation between the first array and the metallic plane, can be increased to achieve a smoother and more linear behaviour of the phase as a function of the patch size, maintaining a range for phase shift greater than 360°.
  • Figure 7 shows the phase curves as a function of the square patch size, at the same frequencies, for two stacked arrays on a ground plane with 3-mm. thick separators, (420) and (430).
  • An object of this invention is a planar reflector, or reflectarray, in multilayer printed circuit technology.
  • Figure 4 shows a simplified lateral view of the multilayer reflectarray. This configuration allows the feed to be located at any angle and to redirect the reflected beam in any direction of the space ( ⁇ 0 , ⁇ 0 ), being ⁇ 0 and ⁇ 0 the usual angles in spherical co-ordinates, by means of an appropriate design of the reflection coefficient phase in each element of the reflectarray.
  • This planar reflector reflects the electromagnetic field coming from a feed (110) located at a focal point, forming a collimated beam in a given direction at a given frequency.
  • the reflector receives a collimated beam from a direction at a given frequency and reflects it, concentrating it at the focal point where the feed (110) is located.
  • the phase in each element can be adjusted so that the planar reflector exhibits the same radiation characteristics as a parabolic reflector.
  • the phase control is carried out by adjusting the dimensions in each radiating element.
  • Each element of the reflectarray consists of several stacked layers of conductive patches separated by dielectric sheets, all of them above a conductor plane, as shown in figure 5 for the case of 2 layers.
  • This description is based on rectangular shaped patches, but the same effect is obtained using conductive patches with other geometric shapes, in which at least two dimensions can be independently adjusted to control the phase of the reflection coefficient for the two orthogonal polarisations of the incident field on the reflector.
  • cross-shaped metalisations can be used, controlling the phase for each polarisation with the length of each arm of the cross.
  • a local periodicity approach is considered, which assumes each element with its dimensions, but in a periodic environment, and the phase of the reflection coefficient is calculated as a function of the patch side.
  • the periodic structure is analysed by a previously developed full wave method, which is based on the Moments Method in the spectral domain.
  • An object of this invention consists of manufacturing each layer of the planar reflector, made up of printed rectangular metallisations on sheets of dielectric material, by means of conventional photo-etching procedures, such as those used in the production of printed-circuit boards. These processes consist of the selective elimination of conductive material starting from a dielectric sheet covered with a conductive film, by photo-etching and chemical etching techniques. The selective elimination of the conductive material can also be carried out by laser, or by cutting the conductive patches with a cutting plotter, and then removing the conductive material from between the patches. In the manufacturing process, the planar array of conductive patches can be deposited either, directly onto the dielectric separator, or onto a support made up of one or more layers of dielectric material.
  • the use of flexible materials allows the reflector to be shaped, in order to fit pre-existing curved surfaces.
  • the frequency band of conventional reflectarrays is very narrow, avoiding their use in a large number of commercial applications.
  • a factor that produces the band limitation is the difference in propagating distance for the rays that propagates from the feed (110) to the wave front (150), as shown in figure 9.
  • the difference in propagating distances is compensated at the central frequency by means of a phase shift in each element.
  • the phase compensation should be slightly different, since the wavelength changes, and the error will be bigger for larger difference of distances to be compensated.
  • Figure 9 shows the lateral view of a configuration, in which the surface of the planar reflector (100) has been chosen as the aperture plane of an equivalent parabolic reflector (140) and the feed (110) has been located at the focus of the paraboloid. Therefore the propagating distances (160) and (170) are equal, i.e. the distances are the same in the whole contour of the reflectarray, minimising the phase to be compensated in the planar reflector and consequently a larger bandwidth is achieved.
  • the other significant limitation in the band for reflectarrays based on patches of variable sizes is imposed by the strong dependence of the phase versus patch-size curves with frequency variations.
  • the use of several array layers allows phase curves as a function of the size to be less sensitive to frequency variations, which produces an increase in bandwidth. Additionally, an adjustment in the dimensions of each element of the reflectarray can be carried out to improve the behaviour in the whole working band.
  • another object of this invention consists of its application as dual polarisation reflectarrays as an alternative to grid reflectors.
  • the phase correction in the reflectarray is carried out independently for each polarisation, allowing the use of two separate feeds (110) and (111) of linear polarisation, as shown in figure 10. If two feeds are used, one for each polarisation, located at different focal points, the dimensions of the conductive patches in each element are adjusted to compensate the position of each feed. The dimensions can also be adjusted in order to generate two collimated beams in different directions, one for each polarisation.
  • Another object of the invention consists of the use of the planar reflector as an antenna with multiple beams. To do that, the dimensions are adjusted in each element in order to obtain a phase distribution of the reflected field that provides several collimated beams in different directions, as shown in figure 11.
  • Another object of this invention is its application in the construction of folding reflectors.
  • large reflectors that should be folded for transportation are required.
  • folding reflectors are used in mobile terminal equipment.
  • the multilayer planar reflector can be built in four or more pieces that can be stacked for transportation for later assembly. The assembly is not critical, since there is no electric contact between the metalisations of the reflectarray.
  • the folding reflectors also have an important application field in onboard satellite reflectors, so that the reflector is folded during the launch and deployed in space.
  • a second main object of the invention is the procedure for designing a multilayer reflectarray in a given frequency band. This procedure provides the dimensions of all the metalisations and therefore the photo-etching masks, and it consists of the following steps:
  • Another object of this invention is the use of the multilayer planar reflector as a polariser, since it allows the phase in each element of the planar reflector to be adjusted in order to generate a collimated beam with a different polarisation than the incident field coming from the feed.
  • An interesting application consists of generating a circular polarised beam from a linear polarisation feed, which is easier to build, or to receive a circular polarised beam concentrating it at the feed with linear polarisation.
  • a conformal beam reflector such as those used in satellites for direct broadcast TV, consists of a reflector with deformities on its surface, so that the radiation diagram illuminates a certain geographical area.
  • the design and construction of conformal beam reflectors should be carried out specifically for each application.
  • moulds which are very expensive to manufacture, are required and they cannot be reused for other antennas.
  • the multilayer reflectarray and its design procedure can be used to adjust the phase in each element so that a conformal beam is achieved, with the same characteristics as that of a shaped reflector.
  • the design procedure is the one described previously, but in the first step the phase shift at each element is defined to get a conformal beam, instead of a progressive phase.
  • the construction of the conformal beam planar reflector is carried out by means of simple photo-etching techniques, which produce a significant reduction in the production costs by eliminating the expensive conformal moulds.
  • the planar reflector for collimated or conformal beam can be built for space applications, using the technology developed for the dichroic subreflectors.
  • This technology uses materials qualified for space that basically consist of arrays of copper or aluminium metalisations (400 and 410) on very thin (between 25 and 160 microns) Kapton or Kevlar sheets (450 and 460) as shown in figure 8.
  • a dielectric separator (420 and 430) between different array layers a kevlar core with a honeycomb structure can be used, which exhibits a very low dielectric constant (of approximately 1.05) and very low losses (loss tangent in the order of 10 -3 ).
  • These materials are flexible and they allow a multilayer structure with metalisations that fit a curved surface to be built. Later on they are subjected to a curing process in which they acquire enough rigidity for their use in space applications.
  • the conformal beam reflectors In order to obtain a further bandwidth improvement in the conformal beam reflectors based on multilayer reflectarrays, they can be built in the shape of a parabolic reflector, and the phase is adjusted by varying the metalisation size only for the small phase differences that produce the conformal beam. Although the planar characteristic of the reflector is lost in this configuration, and consequently the manufacturing process is more complicated, conformal beam reflectors can be built with parabolic moulds, which are reusable for several applications and don't require such a rigorous technology as those with a conformal surface.
  • two independent feeds can be used, one for each linear polarisation, which are located in the vicinities of the paraboloid focus, and the dimensions of the conductive patches are adjusted in each element to compensate each feed position and to conform the beam in the two polarisations.
  • Fig. 1 Lateral view of a planar reflector (100) illuminated by a feed (110). In each element (120) of the reflector, an adjustment is introduced in the phase of the reflected field so that the divergent field coming from the feed (110) is reflected as a collimated beam in the direction of the arrows (130a) and (130b).
  • Fig. 2 Perspective of a planar array of conductive patches (200) deposited onto a sheet (210) of thickness h , made of dielectric material, also known as substrate, which is covered on the lower side by a conductor (230). The period is a .
  • Fig. 3 Perspective of a planar array of conductive patches (200) on a dielectric sheet and conductive plane, where the size of the patches (200) is different to get an adjustment in the phase of the reflected field.
  • the period is a .
  • Fig. 4 Lateral view of a multilayer planar reflector illuminated by a feed (110) to produce a collimated beam in the direction of the arrows (130a) and (130b) defined by the angles ⁇ 0 , ⁇ 0 used in spherical co-ordinates.
  • the planar reflector is made up of two layers of conductive patches (400) and (410) on dielectric material sheets, or substrate, (420) and (430), on a conductive plane (440).
  • the two-layer element (300) represents a generic element l .
  • FIG. 5 Lateral and frontal views of a square periodic cell of side a, used as element in the multilayer planar reflectors for the phase adjustment.
  • the structure of the multilayer periodic element consists of a first rectangular conductive patch (400) of dimensions a 1 xb 1 , a dielectric separator (420) of thickness h 1 , a second rectangular conductive patch (410) of dimensions a 2 xb 2 , a second separator (430) of thickness h 2 , and a conductor plane (440).
  • Fig. 6 Phase of the reflection coefficient at normal incidence for a periodic array of square conductive patches on a ground plane, as shown in figures 2, as a function of the patch side, at three different frequencies, 11.5 (- - -), 12 ( ⁇ ) and 12.5 (- ⁇ - ⁇ -) GHz.
  • periodic cell side a 14mm.
  • separator of relative dielectric constant 1.05 and thickness h 1mm.
  • Fig. 7 Phase of the reflection coefficient at normal incidence for a multilayer periodic array with periodic elements as shown in figure 5 as a function of the patch size at three different frequencies, 11.5 (- - -), 12 ( ⁇ ) and 12.5 (- ⁇ - ⁇ -) GHz.
  • Fig. 8 Perspective of the different layers that make up a multilayer planar reflector. From the upper layer to the lower one, first array of rectangular conductive patches (400) of different sizes, first dielectric substrate layer (450) onto which the patches are deposited, first dielectric separator (420), second array of patches (410), second substrate (460), second separator (430) and metallic plane (440).
  • Fig. 9 Lateral view of a configuration of planar reflector in which the propagation distances for a wave propagating from the feed (110) to the wave front (150) are same in the contour of the planar reflector. These distances are same for all the points of a parabolic reflector (140) with the feed (110) located at the focus.
  • Fig. 10 Lateral view of a multilayer planar reflector illuminated by two feeds (110) and (111) of different polarisation in which the adjustment of the dimensions of the conductive patches is carried out to generate a collimated beam in the direction of the arrows (130a) and (130b) for the two polarisations.
  • Fig. 11 Lateral view of a multilayer planar reflector illuminated by a feed (110) in which the adjustment of the dimensions of the conductive patches is carried out to produce two collimated beams in the directions shown by the arrows (130a-b) and (131a-b), respectively.
  • a commercial foam known as ROHACELL 51
  • ROHACELL 51 has been chosen as the material for the separators between the layers with metalisations which has a relative dielectric constant of 1.05 and a loss tangent of 10 -3 .
  • the arrays of rectangular metallic patches are built starting from a metallised dielectric support of small thickness, such as for example, a 25 micron Kapton film with an 18 micron copper cladding.
  • the Kapton has a relative dielectric constant of 3.5 and a loss tangent of 3x10 -3 , although owing to its small thickness its effect is negligible.
  • a multilayer periodic structure is analysed, which is made up of two or more stacked layers of metallic patches on a metallic plane, separated by dielectric separators.
  • a periodic cell is shown in figure 5 for the case of two layers.
  • a full wave method is used such as the well-known Moments Method in spectral domain, and the phase of the reflection coefficient is computed for the two possible polarisations of the incident field as a function of the different geometric parameters and excitation.
  • Arrays of square resonant patches with the side of approximately half a wavelength are considered as starting point and the size is modified continuously to study the behaviour of the phase versus the resonant length.
  • the size of the patches is varied simultaneously in all the layers maintaining a fixed ratio between the sizes in each layer and a fixed period in all the layers. It has been proven that the array closer to the ground plane should be made up of slightly larger patches.
  • the variation in the reflection coefficient phase is analysed for each one of the two orthogonal polarizations, i.e. for an incident electric field with x component ( E x ), and for an electric field with y component ( E y ), for different angles of incidence and for several frequencies within the working band.
  • some geometric parameters such as the patch repetition period a, the thickness of separators h 1 and h 2 , and the relative size of the patches are adjusted in each layer in order to achieve a sufficiently linear phase variation as a function of the patch dimensions for different angles of incidence, for different frequencies and which cover at least a 360° phase range.
  • the position of the feed with respect to the reflector, the size of the reflector and the direction of radiation are fixed.
  • a circular reflector of 40cm in diameter has been considered, and a commercial feed used in satellite television receivers from the company SATELITE ROVER, with reference FOLWR75, has been used.
  • the traditional photo-etching techniques used in the production of printed circuits can be used.
  • the photo-etching masks for each reflectarray layer have been generated with AUTOCAD from the file with the dimensions of the patches obtained in the design stage.
  • Figures 12 and 13 show the masks to scale with the contours of the rectangular patches for the first and second array layers, respectively.
  • the rectangular patches have been cut from a copper-clad Kapton sheet by a cutting plotter using the AUTOCAD files. Afterwards, the patches are transferred to a 100 micron adhesive film, and this sheet is then adhered to the ROHACELL which acts as separator.
  • a copper-clad Kapton sheet has been used as the metallic plane.
  • This prototype has been built and measured in an anechoic chamber.
  • the measured characteristics of the reflector meet the specifications considered in the design.
  • the radiation patterns are practically the same for the two linear polarisations and they coincide with those obtained by the analysis method.
  • the gain is 31 dB, with ⁇ 0.15dB gain variations in the 11.5 to 12.4 GHz band.
  • the cross polarisation is below -33dB.
  • this invention can be applied to reflector antennas in radar and both terrestrial and satellite communications, with significant advantages compared to conventional parabolic reflectors. Because of the planar characteristic, it can be built in several pieces to be folded and later deployed, being of great use in applications in which large reflectors that need transporting are required. Owing to the fact that is a planar reflector with the possibility of redirecting the beam, it can be fitted to existing structures, such as building walls, structural planes in communication satellites, etc. It can be used as a dual polarisation reflector with an isolation level between polarisations better than those obtained with conventional reflectors.
  • the present invention can be built using space qualified materials and a technology already developed in space applications for the manufacture of dichroic subreflectors. Therefore, this type of multilayer planar reflectors is very suitable for a significant range of applications in the space industry as an alternative to the different types of onboard reflectors in satellites, such as parabolic, grid or shaped reflectors.
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