In this paper, we presented a beam adjustable antenna made up of a slit waveguide and a dielectric slab. In order to change the radiation main-beam angle, we changed the phase constant of the waveguide mode by inserting a dielectric slab for perturbing its field distribution. The direction of radiation main-beam can be steered by dynamically changing the position of the dielectric slab. For the theoretical analysis, the dispersion relation, including the phase and attenuation constants, was determined by solving the transverse resonance equation. An agreement between the theoretical and experimental radiation pattern verifies the beam-steering mechanism. Up to 23beam-steering angle can be achieved using this approach.

A novel millimeter-wave planar leaky-wave antenna is described which consists of a dielectric slab loaded by metallic periodic strips. Several new techniques are discussed, such as an air-gapped dielectric waveguide to reduce conductor loss of the ground plane, a canceling array to suppress the reflections in the waveguide due to the metallic strips, a compact feed, and a simple polarizer. By applying these new techniques, we achieved an excellent antenna efficiency, exceeding 70% at 76 GHz band for both vertical and 45-degree inclined linear polarizations.

This paper verifies the accuracy of PO as applied to the scattering of dipole waves by a finite size reflector which is composed of strips on a grounded dielectric slab. By using the closed form expressions of reflected waves from the surface, PO calculation can be conducted straightforwardly. The calculated results are compared with the experimental ones for vertical and horizontal dipoles over a circular reflector.