High-Resolution Microwave Near-Field Surface Imaging Using Resonance Probes

Autor: Oleksandr Malyuskin, Vincent Fusco
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 65:189-200
ISSN: 1557-9662
0018-9456
DOI: 10.1109/tim.2015.2476277
Popis: A novel microwave high-resolution near-field imaging technique is proposed and experimentally evaluated in reflectometry imaging scenarios involving planar metal-dielectric structures. Two types of resonance near field probes—a small helix antenna and a loaded subwavelength slot aperture are studied in this paper. These probes enable very tight spatial field localization with the full width at half maximum around one tenth of a wavelength, $\lambda $ , at $\lambda $ /100– $\lambda $ /10 standoff distance. Importantly, the proposed probes permit resonance electromagnetic coupling to dielectric or printed conductive patterns, which leads to the possibility of very high raw image resolution with imaged feature-to-background contrast greater than 10-dB amplitude and 50° phase. In addition, high-resolution characterization of target geometries based on the cross correlation image processing technique is proposed and assessed using experimental data. It is shown that printed elements features with subwavelength size $\sim \lambda $ /15 or smaller can be characterized with at least 10-dB resolution contrast.
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