Millimeter-wave microstrip line to waveguide transition fabricated on a single layer dielectric substrate

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E85-B, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1169-1177

  Iizuka, Hideo ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^a   Sato, Kazuo ^a   Nishikawa, Kunitoshi ^a  

^a Toyota Ctrl Research Devmt Labs   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Microstrip line; Millimeter wave; Transition; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALCULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES;

MILLIMETER WAVE MICROSTRIP LINE; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

MICROSTRIP LINES;

EID: 0036592418     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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