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• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
  • H01Q3/00—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system
  • H01Q3/44—Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system varying the electric or magnetic characteristics of reflecting, refracting, or diffracting devices associated with the radiating element
  • H01Q3/46—Active lenses or reflecting arrays
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
  • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
  • H01Q1/48—Earthing means; Earth screens; Counterpoises
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
  • H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction or polarisation of waves radiated from an antenna, e.g. quasi-optical devices
  • H01Q15/0006—Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices
  • H01Q15/0013—Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices said selective devices working as frequency-selective reflecting surfaces, e.g. FSS, dichroic plates, surfaces being partly transmissive and reflective
  • H01Q15/002—Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices said selective devices working as frequency-selective reflecting surfaces, e.g. FSS, dichroic plates, surfaces being partly transmissive and reflective said selective devices being reconfigurable or tunable, e.g. using switches or diodes
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
  • H01Q5/00—Arrangements for simultaneous operation of antennas on two or more different wavebands, e.g. dual-band or multi-band arrangements
  • H01Q5/40—Imbricated or interleaved structures; Combined or electromagnetically coupled arrangements, e.g. comprising two or more non-connected fed radiating elements
  • H01Q5/45—Imbricated or interleaved structures; Combined or electromagnetically coupled arrangements, e.g. comprising two or more non-connected fed radiating elements using two or more feeds in association with a common reflecting, diffracting or refracting device

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• a method of operating a reflectarray as specified and disclosed herein including the steps of: controlling a DC bias signal to the DC bias input of each of the
• % represents the modulo (remainder) operator.
• the via holes 44, 46, 48, 50 also pass through the second substrate, thereby linking the first, second, and third layers.
• the via holes 44, 46, 48, 50 are each electrically coupled to a respective pad in the third layer which thereby provide electrical connections to ground at the third layer.
• This provides advantages in that it avoids providing blind vias which are hard to fabricate, as well as expensive and not reliable. By passing through both first and second substrates, fabrication is reliable.
• the vias also mean that ground is available on the third or bottom layer. The availability of ground on the third or bottom layer facilitates the DC return path. Similarly, having the vias terminate at the third or bottom layer enables fabrication fault finding at later stages.
• the DC bias voltages are configured as follows:
• the first patch length 60 determines the frequency of operation in Y polarization. It also makes one of the phase states fixed. The other two phase states are engineered around this to get desired phase differences with respect to this fixed state.
• the unit cell design only consumes DC power in two of its phase states, while one state does not consume DC power and saves DC power.
• Cross polarization is the reflection of the field of undesired
• the first phase control line section 116 provides L 1Y and l_ 3Y which are the main phase control line section lengths for Y polarization and which can be adjusted as per the required phase shift. Their length is changed in dependence upon whether l_ 2Y and l_ 4Y are zero or non-zero.
• the third phase control line effective length Li X + l_ 2X
• the above described embodiments include three layers, in some embodiments, only two layers are provided and the second substrate and third layer can be omitted.
• the DC isolation element can be implemented on the second layer.
• the RF-DC isolation can in other embodiments be implemented in many other ways. Flowever, having the DC isolation element at a third layer as described above provides good RF performance.

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