Grating lobe suppression of narrow-wall slotted hollow waveguide millimeter-wave planar antenna for arbitrarily linear polarization

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 313-320

  Mizutani, Akiyoshi ^a,b   Sakakibara, Kunio ^a   Kikuma, Nobuyoshi ^a   Hirayama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrays; Millimeter wave antennas; Planar arrays; Power dividers; Slot antennas; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; ANTENNA LOBES; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

ANTENNA EFFICIENCY; MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNAS; PLANAR ARRAYS; POWER DIVIDERS;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 33947372137     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.889815     Document Type: Article

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