Efficiency and gain of slot antennas and arrays on thick dielectric substrates for millimeter-wave applications: A unified approach

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1088-1098

  Eleftheriades, George V ^a,b   Qiu, Meide ^b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Broadband communications; Coplanar waveguide (CPW); IC antennas; Slot antennas; Slot arrays

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MILLIMETER WAVES; PERMITTIVITY; SURFACE WAVES;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

EID: 0036699904     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.800732     Document Type: Article

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