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SHORT-RANGE RADAR

Beam-steering radars at low cost

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An inexpensive and compact short-range radar, which is capable of beam steering and operates at 330–500 GHz, can be used to detect heartbeat-induced chest motions through a person’s clothes.

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Fig. 1: A compact radar based on leaky-wave antennas.

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    José-María Muñoz-Ferreras & Roberto Gómez-García

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Muñoz-Ferreras, JM., Gómez-García, R. Beam-steering radars at low cost. Nat Electron 3, 79–80 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0375-2

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