Title :
Arbitrarily Shaped Lens Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Radar
Author :
Shimoda, Hideaki ; Goi, Tomoyuki ; Misawa, Nobutaka ; Ishitobi, Norimasa
Author_Institution :
Telecom Technology Development Center, TDK Corporation, 2-15-7, Higashi-Ohwada, Ichikawa, Chiba, 272-8558, Japan. E-mail: shimo@ywt.tdk.co.jp
Abstract :
A lens antenna for millimeter-wave radar has been designed, which has an arbitrarily shaped surface that can be fitted to an automotive body. Measured radiation pattern of a lens antenna having a slanted-flat surface shows good agreement with the calculated result.
Keywords :
Antenna feeds; Antennas and propagation; Apertures; Automotive engineering; Dielectrics; Horn antennas; Lenses; Millimeter wave radar; Optical design; Radar antennas;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 2000. 30th European
Conference_Location :
Paris, France
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.2000.338852