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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 20, 2013
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Tamami Maruyama, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yasuhiro Oda, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Jiyun Shen, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Ngoc Hao Tran, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Abstract
A reflectarray reflects an incident wave in a desired direction, and the reflectarray includes a plurality of elements arranged in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The elements reflect the incident wave. A phase of a reflected wave by one element among the plurality of elements differs from a phase of the reflected wave by an element adjacent to the one element in the first direction by a predetermined value, and the phase of the reflected wave by the one element is equal to a phase of the reflected wave by an element adjacent to the one element in the second direction. Gap sizes between patches of a predetermined plural number of elements arranged in the first direction vary from a smallest value to a largest value. Here, an oblique TM incidence is utilized at a spurious resonance frequency.