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Our previous human detection radar system adapted a center-fed reflectarray antenna to a commercially available radar system, successfully increasing the gains of the transmit (TX) and receive (RX) antennas by 21.18 dB and the range for detecting human targets 3.4 times. However, because the TX and RX antennas were placed in the focal point of the reflectarray, the TX signal reflected by the reflectarray was directly propagated into the RX antenna, causing desensitization or damage to the receiving circuit if high powers were used. To reduce this direct reflection, we propose a novel radar antenna configuration in which the TX and RX antennas are placed back-to-back with each other. In this configuration, the RX antenna does not directly face the reflectarray, thus direct path between the TX to RX through the reflectarray is removed. The results demonstrate that this approach achieves the optimum isolation level of 51.3 dB. With the reflectarray, the TX antenna gain increases to 30.6 dBi, but the RX antenna gain remains at 16 dBi since the RX antenna does not utilize the reflectarray. The TX and RX gain difference (14.6 dB) is a trade-off for good isolation and may be reduced by utilizing a high-gain receiver amplifier.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22228972","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,21]],"date-time":"2022-11-21T04:39:59Z","timestamp":1669005599000},"page":"8972","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Isolation Improvement in Reflectarray Antenna-Based FMCW Radar Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3045-4436","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hesham","family":"Yamani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. 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