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The design, development, fabrication, and testing of a wideband reflectarray antenna with a novel concentric ring element operating over Ku/K band frequencies is presented in this paper. The element characterization is performed using the infinite array approach and is inferred that the proposed unit cell offers a higher phase variation of 643 by changing the size of the concentric rings. The proposed reflectarray antenna has a circular geometry and is constructed using 437 elements with an element separation of 0.43λ 0 . The proposed reflectarray offers a 3 dB gain bandwidth of 35% (15-21 GHz). The aperture efficiency is estimated to be 58.78% at 16.5 GHz. The prototype reflectarray is fabricated and tested to validate the simulation results. The measured peak gain of the reflectarray is 28.4 dBi with a side lobe level of −17.6 dB. The measured cross-polarization level is less than −32 dB. Furthermore, it is inferred that the proposed unit cell has a reduced maximum phase sensitivity of 246 /mm with a gain selectivity of 6 dB at the lowest operating frequency.The proposed broadband reflectarray with enhanced performance characteristics is suitable for application in satellite communication and aeronautical radio navigation.

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