Reflectarray for 120-GHz beam steering application: Design, simulations, and measurements

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8362, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tamminen, Aleksi ^a   Ala Laurinaho, Juha ^a   Gomes Martins, David ^c   Häkli, Janne ^c   Koivisto, Päivi ^c   Kärkkäinen, Mikko ^b   Mäkelä, Sampo ^a   Pursula, Pekka ^c   Rantakari, Pekka ^c   Sipilä, Markku ^c   Säily, Jussi ^c   Tuovinen, Reijo ^c   Varonen, Mikko ^b   Halonen, Kari A I ^b   Luukanen, Arttu ^c   Räisänen, Antti V ^a  

^a Department of Radio Science and Engineering ^*  (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

imaging; microelectromechanical; millimeter wave; millimeter wave identification; radar; reflectarray

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT; BEAM WIDTHS; BEAM-STEERING; CONDUCTOR-BACKED COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; DISCRETE VALUES; FMCW RADAR; FOCUSING ELEMENTS; HIGH-VOLTAGES; MEMS PHASE SHIFTER; MEMS SWITCHES; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; MILLIMETER-WAVE IDENTIFICATIONS; OPTICS SIMULATIONS; PHASE-SHIFTING; REFLECTARRAY ELEMENTS; REFLECTARRAYS; SYSTEM-IN-A-PACKAGE;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SILICON WAFERS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 84874717564     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.924167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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