Transmit Array Antenna Using Nonuniform Dielectric Layer
Journal: Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks
Year: 2017

A shaped-beam Transmit Array Antenna based on nonuniform dielectric layer is proposed. Stepping the surface of dielectric layer provides the required phase shift at each point on the surface of transmit array antenna to produce a squared cosecant beam on the other side. In order to analyze this kind of antennas, a simple method based on an equivalent circuit model is introduced, in which the transmission coefficient of each element for oblique incident field is obtained. The design process consi