Electronically scanned FDF-antennas for autonomous intelligent cruise control radar applications

Author

Cherepanov, Andrei S ; Guskov, Anton B ; Yavon, Yunr P. ; Zaitsev, Ernst F

Author_Institution

St. Petersburg State Technical University, Radiophysics Department, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, St. Petersburg, 195251, RUSSIA. Tel. +7-812-5527685, Fax. +7-812-5422858

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

6-13 Sept. 1996

Firstpage

211

Lastpage

213

Abstract

Paper reviews some original design ideas related to the new class of electronically scanned antennas - Integrated Phased Arrays with Ferrite Control for automotive radar applications. Proposed antennas are based on perspective recently appeared FDF-structures consisted of thin ferrite and dielectric layers with one common control winding inside for antenna beam 1D scanning. Electrically controlled FDF-waveguide may be used in different options: as a linear FDF-feed of offset parabolic cylinder antenna, as a planar FDF-antenna or FDF-power dividing unit for microstrip antenna aperture active or passive. The FDF-antennas are of low-profile design, have simple beam position control and promise to be low-cost in large-scale production. R & D of FDF-antenna resulted in 2 deg. beamwidth, scanning range of 20 deg. for one way excitation and 40 deg. for two-way excitation at frequency 77 Ghz.

Keywords

Antenna arrays; Aperture antennas; Automotive engineering; Dielectrics; Ferrites; Intelligent control; Microstrip antennas; Phased arrays; Radar antennas; Radar applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 1996. 26th European

Conference_Location

Prague, Czech Republic

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMA.1996.337555

Filename

4138610