A Wide-Angle Beam Scanning Antenna in E-plane for K-band Radar Sensor

Abstract

In this paper, a K-band antenna with ±60° beam scanning is proposed for a mmWave (millimeter-Wave) radar sensor. Especially, we take advantages of the magnetic dipole principle, and design the antenna by employing via holes in three sides, so as to form a cavity which can be equivalently considered as magnetic dipole, resulting in the 3 dB beam width as wide as 140° in E-plane. We cascade the mmWave antenna to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation= LaTeX >$1\\times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation= LaTeX >$4\\times 4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> arrays for radar transmitting and receiving, respectively. The antenna array is fabricated and implemented to a K-band radar and its wide-angle beam scanning performance is evaluated by the radar’s distance and angular detections.