Design of Flexible Conformal Beam-Scanning Leaky-Wave Antenna
Jiahao Liu, Yiming Liu, Shuang Ma, Qilin Ren, Ya Fan, Zhongjie Wu, Xuebin Wang · 2026
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Description
Jiahao Liu and co-authors design, in a 2026 engineering paper, a bendable antenna that sweeps its beam across a wide arc for Ku-band communications. Rigid antennas cannot hug curved vehicle or device surfaces, and earlier flexible designs lost stability when bent. Their structure rides on a plastic composite that flexes yet holds shape.
Patterned metal stubs create a slow-wave channel whose radiation escapes at a frequency-dependent angle, giving natural beam scanning. The four-element array swept continuously across roughly one hundred degrees of arc while keeping strong gain and efficiency over half across the band. Simulations and bench measurements agreed, and performance held under different bend radii. The authors target conformal wireless systems on moving platforms.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jiahao Liu, Yiming Liu, Shuang Ma, Qilin Ren, Ya Fan, Zhongjie Wu, Xuebin Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |