• CRLH waveguide based ka-band beam-steering leaky-wave antenna for radar application

    Subjects: Geosciences >> Space Physics submitted time 2016-05-03

    Abstract: A KB-band beam-steering leaky-wave antenna (LWA) based on composite right/left-handed (CRLH) rectangular waveguide is proposed and investigated in this paper. The CRLH waveguide is composed of a traditional rectangular waveguide with short-circuited double ridge corrugations periodically mounted on one broadtail. The CRLH structure is air-filled to avoid dielectric loss. A straight long slot is cut on the other broadtail of the rectangular waveguide acting as the radiation aperture to realize a LWA. A balanced condition has been optimized for the LWA to acquire a continuous beam-steering capability from backward to forward quadrants. This capability is verified and high-gain performance is realized by simulations. Compared with other planar CRLH LWAs, the LWA proposed in this paper has the advantages of high power capacity, low loss and consistent high gain, which is very suitable for applications in practical radar systems.

  • Design of a W-band four-channel dual-polarization waveguide slot antenna

    Subjects: Geosciences >> Space Physics submitted time 2017-03-10

    Abstract: The W-band full-polarization radar detection system is in need of a new type of antenna feed with good performance. The waveguide slot array antenna, has the advantages of low profile, high radiation efficiency, easy access to high gain. It has been become the research emphasis in the field of millimeter wave detection. In order to satisfy the need of developing complete polarization radar detection system, a W-band four-channel dual-polarization waveguide slot antenna is designed. The results of the simulation and optimization tests show that, the antenna has outstanding technical characteristics in double polarization. The antenna gain is higher than 13dB, and the cross-polarization level lower than -34dB. The bandwidth below VSWR 1.5 is better than 2.8GHz. High isolation of over 50dB is achieved between different polarization input ports. �2015 IEEE.