About the session
Chairs: Luis Jofre (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain), Andrea Neto (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Gap waveguide technology is based on the control of wave propagation by using periodic structures. This technology, derived from the metamaterials and artificial surfaces background, has been employed during the last seven years to develop new antenna system components. The main advantage is the compromised low loss characteristic/low cost feature, provided by the possibility of using only metal and the non required electrical contact. Consequently, the technology has a lot of potential to be use in the millimeter wave frequency range. Along these years, classical antenna designs have been revisited using this technology as for instance slot arrays or leaky wave antennas but also other system components such as filters, diplexers or feed networks. A global overview of the technology, the different metasurfaces to be used and mainly the state of the art in terms of antenna designs making use of it will be presented in the talk.
This video covers the following topics: antenna; waveguide technology; resonators.
