This paper describes an -band 4 1 aperture-coupled series-fed electronically steerable microstrip leaky-wave antenna (LWA) array design, which has dual-beam radiation pattern and two-dimensional (2-D) beam-scanning capability. The LWA array is operated in the first higher order mode and excited by center-fed aperture coupled for dual-beam operation. The varactor-tuned phase shifters are placed between the antenna elements. The measured half-power beamwidth of the -plane and quasi--plane radiation patterns are less than 30 . By tuning the reverse dc bias of the varactor diodes, the main beam can be scanned in azimuth plane from 13 to +13 off broadside. In the elevation plane, the beam-scanning angle is close to 20 as the operating frequency tuned from 11.58-12.5 GHz. Taking into account each phase-shifter insertion loss and phase progression, the measured results compared closely with the theoretical prediction. The proposed antenna array is suitable for wireless communication and collision warning radar systems. Index Terms-Antenna arrays, aperture-coupled antennas, leaky-wave antennas, microstrip antennas.
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