• DocumentCode
    1950837
  • Title

    Back lobe elimination using a conformal microstrip leaky wave antenna

  • Author

    Penno, Robert P. ; Thiele, Gary ; Reynolds, John ; Schneider, Scott

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Dayton Univ., OH, USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    24-27 April 2006
  • Abstract
    This work models a conformal, microstrip traveling wave antenna, also known as a "leaky wave" antenna, for this function. Experimental results corroborate that with a conformal leaky wave antenna the back lobe is eliminated.
  • Keywords
    conformal antennas; leaky wave antennas; microstrip antennas; LWA; back lobe elimination; conformal microstrip antenna; leaky wave antenna; traveling wave antenna; Aircraft; Brain modeling; Design engineering; Fires; Frequency; Leaky wave antennas; Microstrip antennas; Permittivity; Propagation constant; Synthetic aperture radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radar, 2006 IEEE Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9496-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RADAR.2006.1631844
  • Filename
    1631844