Title :
Review of 20 Years of Research on Microwave and Millimeter-wave Lenses at "Instituto de Telecomunicaço˜es"
Author :
Fernandes, Carlos A. ; Costa, Jorge R. ; Lima, Eduardo B. ; Silveirinha, Mario G.
Author_Institution :
Inst. de Telecomun., Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
Starting from a challenge in the early 1990s to develop a highly shaped beam dielectric lens antenna for a pilot 150 Mb/s cellular mobile broadband system operating in the 60-GHz band, several new developments have been accomplished over more than 20 years at Instituto de Telecomunicações in the areas of millimeter-wave shaped dielectric lens antennas and planar metamaterial lenses. We review here a few representative examples with numerical and experimental results, covering applications in mobile broadband communications, radiometry, satellite communications, multigigabit short-range communications, and sublambda near-field target detection.
Keywords :
lens antennas; metamaterial antennas; millimetre wave antennas; planar antennas; Instituto de Telecomunicacoes; dielectric lens antenna; microwave lens; millimeter wave lens; near field target detection; planar metamaterial lens; Array signal processing; Broadband antennas; Cellular networks; Dielectrics; Lenses; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Reflector antennas;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAP.2015.2397156