Characterization of a Compact Wideband Microwave Metasurface Lens for Cryogenic Applications

Ali Al-Moathin; Mingyan Zhong; Qusay Al-Taai; Yunan Jiang; Michael Farage; Jalil Ur Rehman Kazim; Muhammad Zulfiqar Ali; Fatemeh Nikbakhtnasrabadi; Megan Powell; Prince Khatri; Manoj Stanley; Alessandro Rossi; Hadi Heidari; Muhammad Ali Imran; Qammer H. Abbasi; Nick M. Ridler; Martin Weides; Chong Li

doi:10.1109/ARFTG57476.2023.10279542

Characterization of a Compact Wideband Microwave Metasurface Lens for Cryogenic Applications

Ali Al-Moathin
, Mingyan Zhong
, Qusay Al-Taai
, Yunan Jiang
, Michael Farage
, Jalil Ur Rehman Kazim
, Muhammad Zulfiqar Ali
, Fatemeh Nikbakhtnasrabadi
, Megan Powell
, Prince Khatri
, Manoj Stanley
, Alessandro Rossi
, Hadi Heidari
, Muhammad Ali Imran
, Qammer H. Abbasi
, Nick M. Ridler
, Martin Weides
, Chong Li

University of Glasgow
Oxford Instruments Group Plc
University of Strathclyde
National Physical Laboratory

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

In this paper, we present characterization of a compact flat microwave lens operating between 6 GHz and 14 GHz using a near field scanning system. An X-band horn antenna and open-end rectangular waveguide were used as an illumination source and probe, respectively. |S21| is measured as the probe antenna moves on a plane orthogonal to the optical axis vertically and horizontally. The lens is made of a metasurface layer that is sandwiched by two layers of cross-oriented gratings. The overall dimension of the lens is 10 cm in diameter and 0.57 cm in thickness. The measurement results show that the lens's focal length is 8 cm, and the beamwidth (full width at half maximum (FWHM)) is 3.5 cm, A transmission efficiency of over 90% and a cross-polarization gain of 25 dB were achieved over the entire bandwidth. The measurement results at room temperature are in good agreement with numerical simulations. The proposed lens will be used in a cryogenic environment e.g. dilution refrigerators for quantum computing systems. More results at cryogenic temperature e.g, below 30 K will be shown at the conference.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350323450
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ARFTG57476.2023.10279542
State	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference, ARFTG 2023 - San Diego, United States Duration: 16 Jun 2023 → …

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Conference	101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference, ARFTG 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	16/06/23 → …

Keywords

Broadband
Lens
Metasurface
X-band

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Al-Moathin, A., Zhong, M., Al-Taai, Q., Jiang, Y., Farage, M., Kazim, J. U. R., Ali, M. Z., Nikbakhtnasrabadi, F., Powell, M., Khatri, P., Stanley, M., Rossi, A., Heidari, H., Imran, M. A., Abbasi, Q. H., Ridler, N. M., Weides, M., & Li, C. (2023). Characterization of a Compact Wideband Microwave Metasurface Lens for Cryogenic Applications. In 101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023 (101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ARFTG57476.2023.10279542

Al-Moathin, Ali ; Zhong, Mingyan ; Al-Taai, Qusay et al. / Characterization of a Compact Wideband Microwave Metasurface Lens for Cryogenic Applications. 101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. (101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023).

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Al-Moathin, A, Zhong, M, Al-Taai, Q, Jiang, Y, Farage, M, Kazim, JUR, Ali, MZ, Nikbakhtnasrabadi, F, Powell, M, Khatri, P, Stanley, M, Rossi, A, Heidari, H, Imran, MA, Abbasi, QH, Ridler, NM, Weides, M & Li, C 2023, Characterization of a Compact Wideband Microwave Metasurface Lens for Cryogenic Applications. in 101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023. 101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference, ARFTG 2023, San Diego, United States, 16/06/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/ARFTG57476.2023.10279542

Characterization of a Compact Wideband Microwave Metasurface Lens for Cryogenic Applications. / Al-Moathin, Ali; Zhong, Mingyan; Al-Taai, Qusay et al.
101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2023. (101st ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference: Challenges in Complex Measurement Environments, ARFTG 2023).

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