Compact and Low Cost Linear Antenna Array for Millimeter Wave Automotive Radar Applications

被引:2
作者
Aziz, Imran [1 ,2 ]
Liao, Wan-Chun [3 ]
Aliakbari, Hanieh [4 ]
Simon, Winfried [5 ]
机构
[1] Uppsala Univ, Dept Engn Sci, Uppsala, Sweden
[2] Mirpur Univ Sci & Technol MUST, Dept Elect Engn, Mirpur, Pakistan
[3] Chalmers Univ Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Gothenburg, Sweden
[4] Lund Univ, Dept Elect & Informat Technol, Lund, Sweden
[5] IMST GmbH, Kamp Lintfort, Germany
来源
2020 14TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION (EUCAP 2020) | 2020年
关键词
automotive radar; antenna array; millimeter-wave; series fed array;
D O I
10.23919/eucap48036.2020.9135772
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A low-cost microstrip patch antenna array is proposed in this paper for automotive radar applications in ISM 24 GHz band. The elements of the center-fed array are connected in series to make a compact design with low complexity by obviating Wilkinson power divider. This approach also helps to reduce the dielectric losses of the array. A full-wave electromagnetics (EM) software EMPIRE XPU is used in the design process. The measurement results show 25 percent fractional bandwidth in terms of antenna impedance (23.75-30 GHz), 8.5 dBi maximum gain, 6 degrees half power beam width (HPBW), -12 dB side lobe level (SLL), and more than 50 dB isolation between TX/RX in the desired frequency range.
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