Millimetre-wave dielectric slab and parallel plate waveguide dielectric lens antennas for beam steering

Author

Karttunen, Aki ; Piiroinen, Kalle ; Ala-Laurinaho, Juha ; Raisanen, Antti V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Sci. & Eng., Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

459

Lastpage

462

Abstract

Flat dielectric lens antennas for millimetre-wave beam-steering with fan-beam are studied in this paper. Two different configurations are studied: a dielectric slab waveguide (DSW) lens and a parallel plate waveguide (PPW) lens. Both lenses are made of PREPERM L450 commercial plastic developed for high frequency antenna applications. Two prototype lenses are manufactured and measured at 78.5 GHz. An open-ended WR-10 waveguide is used as a feed. The measurement results are compared to the simulation results performed with Ansys HFSS.

Keywords

beam steering; dielectric waveguides; lens antennas; millimetre wave antennas; parallel plate waveguides; Ansys HFSS; DSW lens; PPW lens; PREPERM L450 commercial plastic; beam steering; dielectric slab waveguides; flat dielectric lens antennas; frequency 78.5 GHz; high-frequency antenna applications; millimetre-wave dielectric slab; millimetre-wave fan-beam; open-ended WR-10 waveguide; parallel plate waveguide; Antenna measurements; Dielectrics; Feeds; Lenses; Slabs; beam steering; fan-beam; lens antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6901791

Filename

6901791