Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
Description
Recently, we have proposed a hybrid electro-mechanical scanning antenna array architecture suitable for highly directive phased arrays at submillimeter wavelengths with field-of-views (FoV) of +/-30 degrees. The concept relies on combining electrical phase shifting of a sparse array with a mechanical translation of an array of lenses. The use of a sparse phased array significantly simplifies the RF front-end, while the translation of a fly's eye lens array steers the element patterns to angles off-broadside, reducing the impact of grating lobes over a wide FoV. The mechanical movement of the lens array can be done using a low-weight, low-power piezo-actuators. In this contribution, we present the current progress in the development of a 550 GHz prototype.
Period
17 Mar 2020
Event title
14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020