DESIGN OF MILLIMETER-WAVE MICROSTRIP REFLECTARRAYS

This paper discusses the theoretical modeling and practical design of millimeter wave reffectarrays using microstrip patch elements of varia ble size, A full-wave treatment of plane wave reflection from a unifor m infinite array of microstrip patches is described and used to genera te the required patch-design data and to calculate radiation patterns of the reflectarray, The critical parameters of millimeter wave reflec tarray design, such as aperture efficiency, phase errors, losses, and bandwidth are also discussed, Several reflectarray feeding techniques are described, and measurements from four reflectarray design examples at 28 and 77 GHz are presented.