Amplitude-Reconfigurable Unit Cell in CLAF-SIW for Beamforming Applications at mmWaves Segura Gómez, Cleofás Biedma Pérez, Andrés Padilla De La Torre, Pablo Palomares Caballero, Ángel Contactless air-filled SIW (CLAF-SIW) Dynamic metasurface Millimeter waves PIN diode Reconfigurable pattern This work has been supported by grant TED2021-129938B-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. It has also been supported by grants PID2020-112545RBC54, PDC2022-133900-I00, and PDC2023-145862-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. It has been also partially supported by grants FPU20/00256 and EST23/00141 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ESF Investing in your future. This work presents an amplitude-reconfigurable unit cell for the design of active 1D metasurfaces at the millimeterwave frequency range. The reconfigurable unit cell consists of contactless air-filled substrate-integrated waveguide (CLAF-SIW) that feeds a SIW cavity with a ring-shaped slot as a radiating element. In order to perform the reconfiguration, two PIN diodes are placed in the ring-shaped slot. The CLAF-SIW allows reduced losses while feeding the reconfigurable SIW cavities in a progressive form as a leaky-wave antenna. The structure requires a single layer for the radiating elements and only two for the feeding layer since the radiation layer completes the CLAF-SIW. For the implementation of beamforming at 40 GHz, a method of switching OFF/ON in each reconfigurable unit cell is applied. By optimizing the state of each unit cell in the reconfigurable leaky-wave antenna, various radiation patterns can be achieved. 2025-03-13T11:41:50Z 2025-03-13T11:41:50Z 2025 conference output Segura Gómez, Cleofás et al. Amplitude-Reconfigurable Unit Cell in CLAF-SIW for Beamforming Applications at mmWaves. 2025 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/103037 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional