TY - JOUR
T1 - Control of leaky-mode propagation and radiation properties in hybrid dielectric-waveguide printed-circuit technology
T2 - Experimental results
AU - Gómez-Tornero, José Luis
AU - Goussetis, George
AU - Feresidis, Alexandros P.
AU - Melcón, Alejandro Alvarez
PY - 2006/11
Y1 - 2006/11
N2 - Experimental results are presented to show how a planar circuit, printed on a laterally shielded dielectric waveguide, can induce and control the radiation from a leaky-mode. By studying the leaky-mode complex propagation constant, a desired radiation pattern can be synthesized, controlling the main radiation characteristics (pointing direction, beamwidth, sidelobes level) for a given frequency, This technique leads to very flexible and original leaky-wave antenna designs. The experiments show to be in very good agreement with the leaky-mode theory. © 2006 IEEE.
AB - Experimental results are presented to show how a planar circuit, printed on a laterally shielded dielectric waveguide, can induce and control the radiation from a leaky-mode. By studying the leaky-mode complex propagation constant, a desired radiation pattern can be synthesized, controlling the main radiation characteristics (pointing direction, beamwidth, sidelobes level) for a given frequency, This technique leads to very flexible and original leaky-wave antenna designs. The experiments show to be in very good agreement with the leaky-mode theory. © 2006 IEEE.
KW - Hybrid waveguide printed circuit technology
KW - Leaky-wave antennas
KW - Sidelobes level control
KW - Tapering antennas
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U2 - 10.1109/TAP.2006.884298
DO - 10.1109/TAP.2006.884298
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-926X
VL - 54
SP - 3383
EP - 3390
JO - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
JF - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IS - 11
ER -