Design, Manufacturing, and Testing of a 20/30-GHz Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Reflectarray Antenna

This letter documents the design, manufacturing, and testing of a single-layer dual-band circularly polarized reflectarray antenna for 19.7-20.2 and 29.5-30.0 GHz. The reflectarray is designed using the concentric dual split-loop element and the variable rotation technique that enables full 360 ° phase adjustment simultaneously in two separate frequency bands. The elements have been optimized to suppress cross-polar reflection. Thereafter, the element data is included in a design tool that computes the reflectarray layout and the associated radiation patterns. The reflectarray is composed of 80 × 80 elements printed on a 40 × 40-cm2Rogers 5880 substrate. The antenna has been manufactured and measured at the DTU-ESA Spherical Near-Field Antenna Test Facility. The peak gain is 35.8 and 40.0 dBi at 20.0 and 29.8 GHz, respectively, and the aperture illumination efficiency is in the range of 53%-63% over the two frequency bands.