Recent Advances in Metamaterial Antennas URSI（超材料天线无线电科学的最新进展）.pdfVIP

Recent Advances in Metamaterial Antennas Christophe Caloz ´ ´ Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada Abstract Some recent advances done by the author and his collaborators in the field of antennas and antenna arrays are presented. These include: multiband systems, an infinite-wavelength antenna array series feeding network, a true time delay system allowing beam squint free scanning, a pencil-beam full-space scanning array, a beam-forming system based on active aperture discretization, a MIMO dynamic radiation pattern diversity transmitter, and a radiative real-time spectrogram analyzer and demultiplexer. 1 Introduction Electromagnetic metamaterials and related concepts [1, 2] have enabled many novel structures and devices. This paper presents, in a narrative manner, a number of recent innovations in metamaterial antennas and antenna arrays. Detailed information is available in the books and papers of the references. 2 Multiband Systems using Narrowband Dispersion Engineering Metamaterials are inherently dispersive. This dispersion property may be exploited to realize resonant-type multi- band antennas. Composite right/left-handed (CRLH) [2] metamaterials, which represent the most fundamental class of broadband metamaterials, are naturally dual-band from their double-Drude nature, which includes twice the number of primitive electromagnetic parameters compared to purely right-handed materials. Using closed-form solutions available in [2]-Sec. 5.1, conventional mono-band components may be systematically transformed to provide dual- band operation. In ant