Summary

2016 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation

2016

Session Number:1A4

Session:

Number:1A4-1

Design of a Printed, Metamaterial-Based Beamformer

Brian B. Tierney,  Anthony Grbic,  

pp.12-13

Publication Date:2016/10/24

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.38.1A4-1

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Summary:
We report the design of a metamaterial-based antenna beamformer that transforms 7 stipulated inputs to 7 prescribed output beams. The beamformer is printed and exhibits
a broad bandwidth of operation. It is modeled as an inhomogeneous, anisotropic 2D m