Design, fabrication and testing of a modulated metasurface antenna at 300 GHz

Conference paper (2017)

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David Gonzalez-Ovejero California Institute of Technology

Cecile Jung-Kubiak California Institute of Technology

M. Alonso Del Pino California Institute of Technology

Theodore James Reck California Institute of Technology

G. Chattopadhyay California Institute of Technology

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Terahertz Silicon micromachining Surface waves Sub-millimeter waves Metasurfaces Deep-reactive ion etching Leaky-waves

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15-05-2017

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English

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Abstract

This paper describes the design and realization of a modulated metasurface (MTS) antenna at 300 GHz. To overcome the hurdles associated with the use of dielectric substrates in the sub-millimeter wave range, we propose an MTS structure which consists of an array of metalized cylinders placed on a ground plane. The metal cylinders are arranged in a square lattice with sub-wavelength unit cell size. This MTS topology has been successfully used to design a spiral MTS antenna. The resulting structure has been micromachined out of a silicon wafer by means of deep reactive ion etching (DRIE). The performance of the antenna has been verified by full-wave simulations, and measurements will be available at the time of the conference.