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Aperture Antennas for Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Applications

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This chapter presents the Integrated Lens Antenna (ILA) technology as it evolved since its introduction aiming to respond to the needs of emerging applications such as high-data-rate communication , intelligent transport , and mm-wave imaging. The topics covered include the ILA design concepts as well as the electromagnetic phenomena intrinsic to dielectric lenses that may affect ILA performance. The aspects of the ILA technology related to selection of the primary feeds, lens materials, and fabrication methods are also revised. A few practical examples are provided to illustrate the current and future trends of this technology.

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Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge contributions of the former students and postdocs at IETR (France), namely: Barbara Barès, Gaël Godi, Anthony Rolland, Tinh Nguyen, and others and at IT (Portugal): Eduardo Lima, Carla Medeiros, Catarina Cruz, and others. The authors also thank Laurent Le Coq for antenna measurements. The authors acknowledge the collaboration from Vasco Fred, Jorge Farinha, and Carlos Brito for prototype construction, and António Almeida and Jorge Silva for prototype measurements. The authors also thank Maarten van der Vorst for discussions on some aspects of the lens design. The authors are also indebted to numerous students that actively contributed to this work in the framework of their theses.

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    Artem V. Boriskin

  2. Université de Rennes 1, Institut d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR), UMR CNRS 6164, Campus de Beaulieu, 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc - CS 74205, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Ronan Sauleau

  3. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Jorge R. Costa

  4. Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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Boriskin, A.V., Sauleau, R., Costa, J.R., Fernandes, C. (2018). Integrated Lens Antennas. In: Boriskin, A., Sauleau, R. (eds) Aperture Antennas for Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Applications. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62773-1_1

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