Compact Wearable Antenna with Metasurface for Millimeter-Wave Radar Applications

Abstract

Three metasurfaces (MTS) are designed to be combined with a series end-fed 1 × 10 array antenna with a modified Dolph-Chebyshev distribution for imaging applications in the millimeter frequency range, 24.05–24.25 GHz. A reduction in secondary lobes and an increase in FTBR can be achieved while preserving gain, radiation efficiency, SLL and size using an MTS–array combination. Moreover, as a result of each single-layer MTS–array combination, operation bandwidth is widened, with gain and radiation efficiency enhancement. The overall devices’ size is 86.8 × 12 × 0.762 mm3. The envisioned application is collision avoidance in aid to visually impaired people at a medium-long distance.