Fully integrated automotive radar sensor with versatile resolution

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2560-2566

  Metz, Carsten ^a,b   Grubert, Jens ^c   Heyen, Johann ^a,c   Jacob, Arne F ^a,c   Janot, Stephan ^d   Lissel, Ernst ^e   Oberschmidt, Gerald ^a,f   Stange, Leif C ^c  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^d Rhode and Schwarz GmbH   (Germany)

^e VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

^f Information Communication Networks Branch   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Millimeter wave radar; MMICs; Multichip modules

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR SENSORS; MICROSTRIP PATCH ARRAYS; ROTMAN LENSES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; FLIP CHIP DEVICES; LENSES; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MULTICHIP MODULES; SENSORS; TRANSCEIVERS;

RADAR;

EID: 0035683392     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.971650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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