Off-axis performances of half Maxwell fish-eye lens antennas at 77 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 479-482

  Fuchs, Benjamin ^a   Lafond, Olivier ^a   Rondineau, Sébastien ^b   Himdi, Mohamed ^a   Le Coq, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive radars; Lens antennas; Millimeter wave antenna; Multiple beam antennas

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LENSES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCANNING;

AUTOMOTIVE RADARS; HALF MAXWELL FISH-EYE (HMFE) LENSES; LENS ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE-BEAM ANTENNAS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 33947404449     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886576     Document Type: Article

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