V-Band Scattered Field Measurements in 8 Different Planes with an L-Shaped Multistatic Configuration

Abstract

This dataset contains samples of the scattered field from a set of flat metallic objects. It includes several files corresponding to eight different measurement planes, where the distances between the plane containing the antennas and the plane containing the targets are 74.3913 cm, 66.4120 cm, 61.4173 cm, 56.4063 cm, 51.4131 cm, 46.3873 cm, 41.4244 cm, and 36.4289 cm. The measurement setup corresponds to a multistatic L-shaped configuration. Two open-ended waveguides were used as antennas, which were moved along the two sides of the L using two high-precision rails to transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) signals from different positions in the acquisition array. For each Tx-Rx channel, a total of 201 equally spaced measurements of the S21 parameter were taken between 55 GHz and 60 GHz using a PNA-X device. In addition to the measurements with the metallic targets, the dataset includes two measurements with aluminum foil covering the support structure and two background measurements conducted using the same structure but without the targets. These background measurements in planes one and eight can be used to eliminate clutter caused by various environmental reflections.