Review of 20 years of research on microwave and millimeter-wave lenses at “Instituto de Telecomunicações”

Starting from a challenge in the early 1990s to develop a highly shaped beam dielectric lens antenna for a pilot 150 Mb/s cellular mobile broadband system operating in the 60-GHz band, several new developments have been accomplished over more than 20 years at Instituto de Telecomunicações [1] in the...

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Main Author: Fernandes, C. A. (author)
Other Authors: Costa, J. R. (author), Lima, E. B. (author), Silveirinha, M. G. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/8920
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/8920
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Summary:Starting from a challenge in the early 1990s to develop a highly shaped beam dielectric lens antenna for a pilot 150 Mb/s cellular mobile broadband system operating in the 60-GHz band, several new developments have been accomplished over more than 20 years at Instituto de Telecomunicações [1] in the areas of millimeter-wave shaped dielectric lens antennas and planar metamaterial lenses. We review here a few representative examples with numerical and experimental results, covering applications in mobile broadband communications, radiometry, satellite communications, multigigabit short-range communications, and sublambda near-field target detection.