@article {20_IEEE ACCESS_LUCAS POLO_ARRAY DESFASADORES TORNILLOS,
	title = {Mechanically Reconfigurable Linear Phased Array Antenna Based on Single-Block Waveguide Reflective Phase Shifters With Tuning Screws},
	journal = {IEEE Access},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {113487-113497},
	abstract = {This work presents the design and prototyping of a reconfigurable phased array in Ku band (16 to 18 GHz) implemented in waveguide technology. The design is based on the use of a novel seamless waveguide module integrating four reconfigurable phase shifters to adjust the relative phase shift between the unitary elements of a linear array, which are illuminated uniformly by a corporate waveguide feeding network. The phase shifters are implemented by a 90{\textdegree} hybrid coupler in waveguide technology where two of its ports are loaded with a tunable reactive load, implemented in this proof of concept with a tuning screw. The four phase shifters have been manufactured in a single part using direct metal laser sintering, avoiding the losses related to bad electric contacts and misalignments associated to multipart devices. This also simplifies the assembly of the full phased array, leading to a modular approach with three parts whose design can be addressed separately. The experimental results for the complete array antenna show great performance and demonstrate that the main-lobe of the radiation pattern can be effectively scanned continuously between the angles -25{\textdegree} and 25{\textdegree}, with a high efficiency in the whole design band thanks to the proposed waveguide implementation.},
	keywords = {antenna radiation patterns, Beam steering, Couplers, Fasteners, linear antenna arrays, phase shifters, Phased arrays},
	issn = {2169-3536},
	doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3003193},
	author = {L Polo-Lopez and J L Masa-Campos and A T Muriel-Barrado and P Sanchez-Olivares and E Garcia-Marin and J C{\'o}rcoles and J A Ruiz-Cruz}
}
@article {19_IJRFMCAE_LUCAS_DESFASADOR_PLANO_H_DMLS,
	title = {Reconfigurable H-plane waveguide phase shifters prototyping with additive manufacturing at K-band},
	journal = {International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering},
	volume = {29},
	number = {12},
	year = {2019},
	pages = {e21980},
	abstract = {Abstract This work presents the design and manufacturing of a K-band reconfigurable phase shifter completely implemented in waveguide technology for reduced insertion loss, good matching, and large phase shifting range. The device is based on the combination of a short slot coupler and two tunable reactive loads implemented as a section of short-circuited waveguide where an adjustable metallic post is inserted. Three prototypes of this design have been manufactured using different techniques (conventional computer numerical control machining, a low-cost fused filament fabrication technique and direct metal laser sintering) in order to assess its performance for different applications. The prototypes have been characterized experimentally and the achieved results are evaluated and compared. The proposed phase shifter, since it is fully developed in waveguide technology, eliminates the need of adding transitions to planar structures in order to integrate lumped components like pin diodes or varactors. Therefore, this device has a great potential in high-power beam steering phased arrays.},
	keywords = {additive manufacturing, fused filament fabrication, phase shifter, reconfigurable, selective laser sintering, waveguide},
	doi = {10.1002/mmce.21980},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mmce.21980},
	author = {L Polo-Lopez and J L Masa-Campos and J A Ruiz-Cruz}
}
@conference {16_URSI_LUCAS-POLO_horn_PEW_PMW,
	title = {An{\'a}lisis de discontinuidades en gu{\'\i}a de onda con condiciones de contorno de pared magn{\'e}tica perfecta laterales y transversales},
	booktitle = {Simposium Nacional URSI 2016},
	year = {2016},
	month = {September},
	abstract = {This contribution presents the analysis of waveguide problems involving general boundary conditions of perfect magnetic wall. This type of boundary condition, when the waveguide device under analysis has physical symmetry, is used very commonly to speed up the computation time in general waveguide solvers by exploiting the symmetries of the excitation. This contribution is focused on extending its use in general problems having this type of boundary condition in the lateral and transverse walls, applying the mode-matching method. The formulation will be applied to classical waveguide devices surrounded by perfect magnetic walls, but also to simulate radiating problems. The simulation results will be compared with those obtained by other numerical techniques (based on different solvers) to test the validity of the presented formulation.},
	author = {L Polo-Lopez and J A Ruiz-Cruz and J R Montejo-Garai and J M Rebollar-Machain}
}
@conference {15_CNM_Polo_hornmodematching,
	title = {Analysis and design of horn antennas with arbitrary profile using mode-matching},
	booktitle = {Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, CMN 2015},
	year = {2015},
	month = {July},
	author = {L Polo-Lopez and J A Ruiz-Cruz and J C{\'o}rcoles and C A Leal-Sevillano}
}
@conference {15_URSI_JORGE_INVITADA,
	title = {Desarrollo de componentes pasivos con divisi{\'o}n/combinaci{\'o}n de potencia para sistemas de comunicaciones},
	booktitle = {Simposium Nacional URSI 2015},
	year = {2015},
	month = {September},
	abstract = {This paper addresses the development of passive devices for communication systems working at the microwave frequency band, but also at millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies. A brief review of different types of passive devices that the authors have been developed for different applications will be made. The paper will be focused on the devices for the last stage of the transmitter/receiver chain in communications systems, where the antennas and other components such as filters, multiplexers, polarizers, dividers/combiners, etc are an essential part. The application of these devices to power combination techniques will be also outlined, which can be used in high-power amplification, but also in other problems as antenna arrays.},
	author = {B Taha-Ahmed and J C{\'o}rcoles-Ortega and R V Haro-Baez and C A Leal-Sevillano and J L Masa-Campos and J R Montejo-Garai and E Garcia-Marin and A Mor{\'a}n-L{\'o}pez and L Polo-Lopez and J M Rebollar-Machain and J A Ruiz-Cruz and P Sanchez-Olivares}
}
