IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Antenna and Propagation Technologies Contributing to Diversification of Wireless Technologies
Ultra-Wideband Array Antenna Utilizing Novel Scanning System with Tapped Delay Lines for Short Range Radar
Fuminori SAKAIKazuo OHTAKunio SAWAYA
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2011 Volume E94.B Issue 5 Pages 1194-1200

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A UWB impulse array antenna (IAA) utilizing a novel electrical scanning system with tapped delay lines is proposed and its usefulness is experimentally verified. The experimental antenna is composed of impulse generators installed in each antenna element and tapped delay lines used for creating transmitting trigger signals, which is a simple circuit configuration. It is shown that the output phase of the transmitting wave can be controlled by controlling the period of the trigger signal, and beam direction can be controlled from -30deg to +30deg by changing the trigger frequency from Fc -2kHz to Fc+2kHz. Evaluation of this antenna as a short range radar is carried out and distance resolution of 25cm and angle resolution below 10deg are obtained.

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