Title :
Back lobe elimination using a conformal microstrip leaky wave antenna
Author :
Penno, Robert P. ; Thiele, Gary ; Reynolds, John ; Schneider, Scott
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Dayton Univ., OH, USA
Abstract :
This work models a conformal, microstrip traveling wave antenna, also known as a "leaky wave" antenna, for this function. Experimental results corroborate that with a conformal leaky wave antenna the back lobe is eliminated.
Keywords :
conformal antennas; leaky wave antennas; microstrip antennas; LWA; back lobe elimination; conformal microstrip antenna; leaky wave antenna; traveling wave antenna; Aircraft; Brain modeling; Design engineering; Fires; Frequency; Leaky wave antennas; Microstrip antennas; Permittivity; Propagation constant; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Radar, 2006 IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9496-8
DOI :
10.1109/RADAR.2006.1631844