A Dual-Band Beam-Steering Array Antenna With Integration of Reflectarray and Phased Array

This letter presents a dual-frequency beam-steering array antenna (DBSA), which integrated a height adjustable reconfigurable reflectarray of C-band and a phased array of X-band. Each antenna element can achieve an arbitrary phase shift value in the range of 0°–360° by controlling the height-adjustable device and digital phase shifter at 5.8 and 10 GHz, respectively. Accordingly, the DBSA can be fed by two sets of feed networks independently, which can simultaneously achieve beam steering of arbitrary angle at dual frequencies. A prototype of 8 × 8 DBSA was designed and fabricated to realized beam scanning in the angle range from −40° to 40° in the
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plane at 5.8/10 GHz, respectively. The measured maximum gain of DBSA is 14.4/21 dBi with aperture efficiency of 32.9%/50.6% at 5.8/10 GHz, respectively. The proposed DBSA can be applied in satellite communication to realize air-to-ground and intersatellite communications at the same time.