Novel antenna concept for compact millimeter-wave automotive radar sensors

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 771-774

  Beer, Stefan ^a   Adamiuk, Grzegorz ^a   Zwick, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

End fire antennas; Millimeter wave antennas; Millimeter wave radar; Radar antennas; Reflector antennas

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; ALUMINA SUBSTRATES; ANTENNA CONCEPTS; AUTOMOTIVE RADAR SENSORS; CERAMIC SUBSTRATES; END-FIRE; END-FIRE ANTENNAS; FAN BEAMS; FLIP CHIP; MEASUREMENT SETUP; METAL HOUSING; MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR; MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNAS; PARABOLIC REFLECTOR; PROBE-BASED; RADIATION PATTERNS; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; RETURN LOSS; YAGI-UDA ANTENNAS;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SENSORS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77955340824     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2026917     Document Type: Article

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